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The 346 premises comprise 385 separately rated houses
and tenements.
As a result of these house-to-house inspections, no less
than 2,077 defects or nuisances were discovered and dealt
with, and these are enumerated in the appended summary:-
Defective drains 1
Blocked drains 2
Defective and short ventilating shafts to drains 12
Dilapidated W.C. apartments 28
Insufficient W.C. accommodation 4
Light and ventilation to W.C. apartments insufficient 8
Defective and insanitary W.C. basins 14
Defective joints between flush pipes and W.C. basins 3
Defective W.C. seats 8
W.C. flushing boxes out of order 15
Defective manholes 2
Defective fresh air inlets to drains 11
Defective house roofs 74
Dirty and defective ceilings and walls of rooms 476
Defective brickwork and pointing to walls 69
Defective doors 52
Defective doorsteps 6
Defective stairs and handrails, etc., to staircases 23
Unsatisfactory lighting to staircase 9
Defective floors of rooms 80
Absence of sink 10
Insanitary stone troughs and/or defective sinks 9
Defective and untrapped waste pipes 32
Defective, absence of, or insufficient yard paving 33
Absence of, or defective eaves guttering and stack
pipes 89
Nuisances from dampness 125
Absence of, or defective gratings to ventilation openings
under floors 2
Absence of sufficient ventilation to rooms 16
Windows, defective or not made to open 146
Defective window sills 33
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