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Defective stairs and handrails, etc., to staircases 16
Unsatisfactory lighting to staircase 4
Defective floors of rooms 48
Absence of sink —
Insanitary stone troughs and/or defective sinks 5
Defective and untrapped waste pipes 15
Defective, absence of, or insufficient yard paving 15
Absence of, or defective eaves guttering and stack
pipes 43
Nuisances from dampness 93.
Absence of, or defective gratings to ventilation openings
under floors 16
Absence of sufficient ventilation to rooms 3
Windows, defective or not made to open 187
Defective window sills 20
Dirty, defective or uncovered service water cisterns 20
Defective kitchen ranges 52
Defective stoves 39
Defective coppers 25
Defective chimneys 27
Defective chimney pots 5
Broken sash cords 432
Defective dustbins 21
Absence of, or defective gully curbs 21
Absence of, or unventilated food stores 5
Miscellaneous 46
An analysis of the house-to-house records for the year
1937 has been made, and the following statistical information
compiled therefrom:—
Dwelling Houses.
Number of houses inspected 254
Number of Rooms.
Living Rooms 601
Sleeping Rooms 779
Bed-living Rooms 50
1,430
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