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INFECTED BEDDING.
The Committee have recommended that in future a charge of
Ios. be made, my discretion to govern any questions on the point,
for disinfecting Bedding in connection with cases of non-notifiable
Infectious Disease, such charge to include removal and return by
the Council of the articles disinfected.
DIRTY PAVEMENTS.
I wish to draw attention to the very inadequate manner in
which our pavements are cleansed. They should be tended with
even more scrupulous care than the roadways for the reason that
pedestrians make more use of the pavement than the road. They
are therefore more likely to run risk of infection from expectoration
and excreta often left lying for days and days on the public path.
Especially is this so in the angle formed by the wall of a house and
the pavement. This I might almost say is never touched and
most certainly is never really clean.
URINALS.
The public lavatory accommodation for our growing District is
quite inadequate. In my Annual Report three years ago I drew
particular attention to this, but still there is no suitable accommodation
for males between the Leyton and Hoe Street Stations of the
Great Eastern Railway, and none whatever for females. With
so many tram and 'bus lines converging upon the "Bakers' Arms"
that site is a very good one, in fact the best for the immediate construction
of suitable premises. In the summer months large crowds
pass that locality, and much inconvenience and not a little nuisance
are caused by the want I have alluded to.
DUST COLLECTION.
20169 tons 2 cwts. of house refuse, comprising 15546 loads,
have been deposited at the works of the Destructor this year,