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NOTES ON SANITARY WORK
AND MATTERS INCIDENTAL THERETO.
DUST AND HOUSE REFUSE COLLECTION.
This is carried out by contract, and the total cost per annum
Is about £3,000. Each house has its refuse collected twice a
week, which refuse is burnt at the Destructor Works.
PAVEMENT AND DRAINAGE OF ROADWAYS AT REAR
OF SHOPS.
In reference to the remarks under above heading in the 1903
Annual Report of my predecessor, I have to report that most of
these have now been dealt with.
ADEQUATE CLEANSING OF PAVEMENTS (REFERRED
TO IN 1905 REPORT).
I am of opinion that our pavements are kept in a reasonably
clean condition, and will bear comparison with those of other
similar districts.
DAIRIES, COWSHEDS, &c., AND MILK SUPPLY.
The great bulk of the milk is imported. There are nine cowkeepers
in the district, but even these in nearly all cases supplement
the home supply. The inspectors under my supervision (and