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VARIOUS.
Manhole covers unsealed 10
Hoof defective from lost or broken tiles or slates 5
Gutters filled up with builder's rubbish 2
Yard paving spalled by frost 3
Hot water pipe leakages 9
Intercepting chamber inlet badly fixed 1
Intercepting chamber inlet absent 1
Waste pipe from fishmonger's sink passing under parlour floor 1
Defective pumps for cellar sumps 2
In my monthly report for October, 1906, I said : " although the Bye
Law has been in force for over two years, all the owners, agents, and builders
do not appear to have seen the necessity of rigidly adhering to the Bye-Laws.
However, in the course of a little longer time I expect all contraventions of
this kind to disappear when they clearly understand that the Council intend
their Bye-Laws to be faithfully carried out." If, in the first table,
attention be paid in regard to the figures for 1908, compared with those for
1907, it will be noticed that the total number of houses inspected is much
less for this year under review, but that the number of re-inspections wereslightly
greater in proportion.
Overcrowding. During the investigations made by myself and staff
into the origin of infectious diseases, many cases of over-crowding came to
light. These I made personal inquiry into. It is usually caused by a man
with a family of his own quite numerous enough to fill the rooms intended for
bedrooms, receiving a second family to assist in paying the rent. In most
cases good advice, patiently given, and in the remainder an informal notice,
proved sufficient to produce abatement. Particulars of over-crowding, unconnected
with infectious diseases, are to be found in the Report of the Chief
Sanitary Inspector.
Housing- of the Working- Classes Act. Under Section 32
of this Act notices were served with reference to three houses.