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During the year I have presented 12 reports to the Council
dealing with vital statistics and other matters coming under
my notice. The Inspector of Nuisances has sent out 3
printed notices, 5 written ones, and has also given 30 verbal
ones. These have all been attended to. With the Nuisance
Inspector I have made a house to house inspection of the
district and am glad to find that its sanitary condition
steadily improves Where privies have been converted into
Water Closets this improvement is most marked. The
Smithfield of to-day is a wonderfully improved place to the
Smithfield of a few years ago through these conversions. In
East Road and Brisco Road there are a considerable number
of water closets, but there are also a great number of privies.
Everyone knows that these privies are apt to smell and leak
however careful you may be, and when there are numbers of
them together the nuisance is greater. It is disheartening
to those who have removed the smell from their own
premises by putting in a water closet, to be made to suffer
the smell from their neighbour who has not done so. I
consider the time has come when these houses in East Road
and Brisco Road having still privies should have them converted
into water closets There are also a number of houses
on the East side of Dalzell Street, Moor Row, that ought to
have their privies made into water closets. Most of the
houses on this side are already water closets or are being
made so.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Yours, &c.,
GEORGE CALDERWOOD,
Medical Officer of Health.