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made to the smaller houses in the District for dealing with offensive
accumulations and other matters.
After consultation with the Medical Officer of Health, it was
decided to collect the house refuse twice in each week from the
smaller houses during the months of September and October, and I
personally visited nearly the whole of the small houses in the
District.
Leaflets drawn up by the Medical Officer of Health were also
distributed to the smaller houses throughout the District.
Drainage. The drains of eleven premises were examined and
tested during the year, all of which were found to be defective.
Four of these were reconstructed, and the remaining seven
are now being reconstructed.
Insufficient Water-closets. Water for flushing purposes was
laid on to seven houses during the year.
Insufficient Ash-pits. One hundred and forty-one premises
were provided with movable receptacles for house refuse.
Houses Unfit for Human Habitation. See special report on
the Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations.
Temporary Shelters. The twenty-four shelters for Fruit
Pickers in the District were not all occupied last season, owing to
one of the farmers practically having given up for the time being
the growing of strawberries, and of the twenty shelters at this
farm only two were occupied. These two shelters with four at
Thongs Farm, were regularly inspected.
At the latter Farm a structure was erected for the cooking
of food and drying clothes, and this proved to be of great benefit
to the occupiers.
The shelters were occupied by 12 men, 6 women, and 4 children
under the age of 14 years.
Slaughter-houses, Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops. These
have been regularly inspected, and generally kept in good condition
throughout the year.
Notices were sent to the occupiers in the year 1909, calling
their attention to the Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, Sections
53 and 54, as to Infectious Disease among the employers.