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to renew the licenses until the work was completed,
this resulted in the necessary alterations being quickly carried
out. Provision was also made for the lighting and flushing
of the urinals.
The efforts made to secure the provision of adequate flushing
of the urinals were checked to a considerable degree by the
Regulations of the Barnet Water Company, which prohibits
the use of a flushing apparatus of more than one gallon
capacity. It is obvious that an apparatus of this size is insufficient
to properly flush a urinal with a surface liable to
fouling of from 40 to 50 square feet, and in practice this has
to be supplemented to a great extent by hand flushing. With
reference to the premises without a sanitary convenience, such
provision has not yet been made. The owners, however, have
now arranged to erect a temporary urinal, and, I understand,
that it is their intention to present to the Justices at the next
Licensing Sessions, plans of proposed structural alterations,
including the provision of modern sanitary conveniences.
OVERCROWDING.
Overcrowding of dwelling houses was dealt with in 25
instances as a nuisance calculated to be injurious to the health
of the inmates. In about two-thirds of these cases the over
crowding was not very serious, and the occupiers were able to
abate the nuisance by re-arrangement of the sleeping accommodation.
At the end of the year two cases were still being
dealt with.
PAVING OF YARDS.
During the year the yards of 75 houses were properly
paved with some suitable hard and impervious material, and
the existing paving of a large number of other yards was
pronerly repaired.