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19. Public-house Urinals. The urinals attached to publichouses
and accessible to the public have been regularly inspected
during the year, 606 inspections being made. Regular cleansing
has been required.
20. House Inspection. 6092 houses were inspected, house-tohouse,
compared with 6604, 6160, and 4709 in the three preceding
years; 7573 were inspected re infectious diseases and complaints,
compared with 7673, 9604, and 10291.
In addition to these the 332 registered houses were inspected
two or more times.
21. Table XVI. shows the streets inspected and number of
houses found defective in each.
At 2193 houses, interiors were cleansed or defective roofs repaired,
compared with 2917, 2693, and 2066 in the three preceding
years. 369 houses with damp walls were remedied, compared
with 885, 442, and 287 in the three previous years.
Improved ventilation was provided in 117 houses, compared
with 129 in 1906. 675 new dust-pails were supplied compared
with 679, 444, and 498 in the three preceding years.
22. Medical Officer's Inspections. These amounted to a total
of 582. Special inspections were made of the cow-sheds, milkshops,
bakehouses, many of the houses registered under the bylaws,
and other tenement houses re water-supply. The other
inspections were chiefly on account of tuberculosis, diphtheria,
scarlet-fever, and zymotic enteritis. 25 visits were paid for
purposes of diagnosis, mostly at the request of medical men, and
a few for school-teachers. Eleven of these cases were varicella,
resembling small-pox. One was a case of suppuration of the
mastoid in which enteric fever was suspected, and one was tuberculous
meningitis, in which epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis
was feared.