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cult and expensive matter. It is essential that all
cisterns or similar receptacles for the storage of drinking
water should be periodically cleansed and kept
properly covered. On numerous occasions, however,
your inspectors have found them to be in an extremely
dirty condition, and in one or two instances to contain dead
mice, birds, and other animals. Owing to the difficulty of
access to many of the existing cisterns, regular cleansing is
neglected, and it is, therefore, highly satisfactory that more
effective action can now be taken in respect to any cistern
which is so placed, constructed or kept as to render the water
liable to contamination. Other important sanitary provisions
in the new Act deal with the examination and testing of
drains, etc., the provision of sinks and urinals, and the
Registration of certain businesses as offensive trades.
That portion of the routine work of your inspectors and
disinfector which can be conveniently set out in tabulated
form is included in the following summary.