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15
Drains (defective) reconstructed 115
Inspection chambers put in for easy access to private drains 51
Dustbins provided 22
Houses overcrowded so as to be a nuisance and injurious to
health 9
Animals so kept as to be a nuisance 3
Visits to Common Lodging House, midnight and otherwise
(only one in the district) 70
Visits to Cowsheds, Dairies, and Slaughterhouses 80
Visits to inspect Bakehouses 38
Visits to remove Gipsies, Settlers, etc. 88
Sundry visits on account of iufectious disease 1
„ „ „ cleansing of rooms 686
„ „ „ disinfection of bedding, etc.
Booms cleansed and whitewashed after infectious disease 100
Beddings, etc., disinfected 110
Rooms disinfected 175
Removal of infected persons to Isolation Hospital 8
Compulsory removal of dead body to Mortuary upon Justices'
Order 2
Visits to look up work after notices served 560
Houses inspected 303
Carcases of animals removed from brooks, waste land, etc. 23
Quantities of fish „ „ „ „ 5
Notices, verbal and otherwise, to remove manure deposits 10
Three trunks of haddocks (about 180 lbs. fish) seized and condemned,
conviction gained 3
Total 3,254
This table is exclusive of any work done in connection with
Canal Boats Acts and New Buildings.
canal boats.
The work done in respect of these is not included
in the foregoing table, and may be briefly summarised as
follows:—
78 were inspected and, speaking generally, found
clean and healthy. Nine contraventions were found, of
which eight were remedied. No case of disease was
reported, and no boats are registered in this district.
water supply.
Ten samples of well water were submitted to me
for analysis during the year, of which five were condemned
on chemical evidence. In one instance the Board were
obliged to resort to legal proceedings to enforce compliance
with their requirements, and were successful in their action.