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INSPECTION OF THE DISTRICT AND ABATEMENT OF
NUISANCES.
In investigating complaints received and under the scheme of
House to House Inspection, 3,923 houses have been inspected.
This has necessitated 8,791 re-visits in order to ascertain if the
insanitary conditions found to exist at the first visit have been
remedied and that the structural work (often necessary) was
being efficiently carried out.
Houses inspected 4217
Houses re-inspected 8791
Connections of drains tested 3715
Notices served 4374
Complaints received 395
Defective drains remedied 381
W.C.s in defective state, new traps and straight-
backed pans provided where necessary 404
Sink, bath and lavatory wastes, and rain pipes
made to discharge in open air over trapped
gullies 192
Defective gullies replaced, and defective connections
of gullies remedied 510
New sink and bath waste pipes provided and
repaired 168
New salt-glazed stoneware sinks provided. 128
Bath, waste and lavatory sink pipes trapped 34
Ventilating shafts repaired, or provided to soil
pipes and drains 133
Defective soil pipes remedied, &c. 4