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Dirty and defective ceilings and walls of rooms 706
Defective brick work and pointing to walls 73
Defective doors 52
Defective doorsteps 21
Defective stairs and handrails, etc. to staircases 29
Defective floors of rooms 120
Insanitary stone troughs and/or defective sinks 31
Defective and untrapped waste pipes 53
Defective, absence of, or insufficient yard paving 126
Rain water pipes direct to drains 3
Absence of, or defective eaves guttering and stack
pipes 155
Nuisances from dampness 83
Absence of ventilation under floors 6
Absence of, or defective gratings to ventilation openings
under floors 7
Windows, defective or not made to open 127
Defective window sills 23
Dirty and uncovered service water cisterns 43
Defective kitchen ranges 110
Defective stoves 105
Defective coppers 58
Broken sash cords 498
Defective service water pipes 2
Defective dustbins 63
Absence of, or defective gully curbs 8
Miscellaneous 84
An analysis of the house-to-house records for the year
1928 has been made and the following statistical information
compiled therefrom:—
Dwelling Houses.
Number of houses inspected 370
Number of rooms. Living Rooms 884
,, Sleeping Rooms 962
,, Bed-living Rooms 101
1947
47