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SANITARY WORK.
The following is the Report of the Sanitary Inspector:—
Houses Inspected 3666
Houses disinfected, walls stripped, and lime-whitened 334
Orders by notices and letters served on owners and
occupiers 3265
Complaints received 264
Nuisances caused by fish offal, manure and other
refuse 85
Defective drains remedied 231
Sink and bath wastes and rain pipes made to
discharge in open air over properly trapped
gullies 758
Gullies supplied, and defective connections of same
remedied 889
Ventilating shafts to soil-pipes and drains 714
Flushing cisterns supplied to W.C.'s with inch
flushing pipes 117
Flushing cisterns repaired 259
W.C.'s in defective state—new traps and straight
back pans, traps concreted to top, with
cement floors and open risers 1419
New sink waste pipes provided 67
Pan-closets with iron containers and leaden D-traps
replaced by approved arrangements 25
Defective soil pipes 69
Houses properly paved around the back additions 342
Intercepting syphons and manholes provided between
house-drains and sewer with proper air
inlets and outlets 15
Houses with defective roof guttering and general
insanitary and filthy conditions repaired
and cleaned 193
Drains tested 3155
Floors of sculleries repaved 31
Houses entirely re-drained 33
Stagnant water under dwellings remedied 39