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SUMMARY OF SANITARY WORK DURING 1897.
The following is the Report of the Sanitary Inspector:—
Houses inspected 3310
Connections of drains tested 2478
Orders by notices, etc., served on owners or occupiers 2336
Complaints received 272
Defective drains remedied 370
Houses entirely redrained with intercepting syphons
and manholes provided between house-drains
and sewer, with proper air inlets and outlets 87
W.C.'s in defective state — new traps and straight
backed pans provided where necessary—traps
concreted to top, with cement floors and open
risers 950
Sink and bath wastes and rain pipes made to discharge
in open air over properly trapped
gullies 697
Defective gullies replaced and defective connections
of gullies remedied 708
New sink waste pipes provided 109
New salt-glazed stoneware sinks provided 28
Bath, lavatory and sink waste pipes trapped immediately
under arrangements 30
Pan-closets with iron containers and leaden D-traps
replaced by approved arrangements 9
Ventilating shafts (4-in ) provided to soil pipes and
drains 475
Defective soil pipes remedied 32
Flushing cisterns supplied to W.C.'s with efficient
flushing pipes 125
Flushing cisterns repaired 230
Yards properly paved around back additions of
houses 534
Floors of sculleries properly paved 50
Stagnant water under dwellings remedied 22
Houses with defective roofs, guttering and general
insanitary, dilapidated and filthy conditions
repaired and cleansed 247
Houses disinfected, walls stripped and limewhitened 421
Walls of back additions of houses properly rendered 32
Houses without water, supplied by the East London
Service, and water supplies to houses restored 91
Domestic water cisterns repaired 13
Covers provided to domestic water cisterns 109