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officers, being intercepted from the sewer, and having proper
air-inlets and outlets, make it absolutely impossible for
any danger to arise to the health of the inmates.
3.—In instances of Combined Drainage when the drains have
not been properly laid, cases of infectious diseases may occur
(and I allude especially to Typhoid Fever), and prove a great
danger to the health of the inmates in adjoining houses.
I may quote a case, which was brought to my notice, in
illustration of this:—
Nos. 1, J, 5, Albert Road, Leyton. These houses are
drained under the combined system. A lad was taken ill
with Typhoid Fever, at No. 1, on or about August 28th.
The disease rapidly spread to the two adjoining houses, Nos.
3 and 5, with the result that by September 6th five cases had
been notified from these three houses as suffering from
Typhoid Fever!
The subsequent inspection showed that the drains were in
a very defective condition, the defects being remedied as soon
as possible.
DUST REFUSE.
The "Pail System" continues to work satisfactorily. It has
been foupd necessary to increase the number of carts and men
employed on the work, and there are now II carts and 15 men.
I again draw attention to the practice of depositing trade refuse
and other material in the roadway. As nothing has been done in
the matter, I wish again to emphasize the fact that this refuse, if
left in the roadway any length of time, may become a nuisance.
DUST DESTRUCTOR.
The Destructor has now been working the whole of the year,
and the results have been most satisfactory.
The quantity of sludge and house refuse has been very large,
being something like 68 tons of combined sludge and house refuse
daily.
The Destructor has been thoroughly tested by eminent scientists,
and their conclusions are very interesting, and are therefore
appended:—
"From a consideration of the results of this trial we have
"arrived at the following conclusions:—
"1 The Destructor is capable of consuming wet sewage
"cake and house refuse of poor character in a complete
" and satisfactory manner.