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23
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
Town Hall,
Wood Green,
January, 1908.
To the Chairman and Members of the Wood Green
Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report of the Work
in this Department during the year ending December 31st, 1907.
There has been 117 Complaints received at the office of
various nuisances.
As in previous years I have included under the head of Special
Complaints all nuisances found, except those of House to House
Inspection, which appear under that head in another column.
SPECIAL COMPLAINTS.
No. of Drains opened and examined, tested, &c. 133
„ ,, Unstopped, repaired 76
„ ,, Reconstructed 70
,, Disconnecting traps or chambers inserted 45
„ Waste pipes, rainwater pipes, &c., disconnected 103
„ Soil pipes ventilated 47
,, New flush cisterns to W.C.'s 18
„ New apparatus to W.C.'s 82
,, W.C.'s cleansed and repaired 21
„ W.C.'s supplied with water 9
„ Houses supplies with water 6
„ Sanitary dustbins supplied 215
„ Roofs repaired 15
„ Rainwater pipes and gutters repaired 21
„ Surfaces of ground adjoining houses paved 25
„ Houses cleansed 15