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Oil the recommendation of the Committee your Vestry adopted
the following "Instructions" to the Sanitary Inspectors for their
guidance in connexion with the Regulations:—
Every Inspector to see:—
1. That all cisterns are periodically cleansed and properly covered.
2. That all waste pipes from sinks, cisterns, baths, &c., be disconnected and
empty themselves over, or preferably, near surface gratings, and outside
the house where practicable.
3. That the drains under all such gratings be efficiently trapped.
4. That the paving of yards be laid to a fall towards such gratings, with the
joints of such paving grouted or pointed in Portland cement or other
impervious material.
5. That all drains be trapped from the Sewer outside the wall of the house
next the Sewer.
Note.—Where convenient or practicable an intercepting chamber with a closefitting
cover and an air-pipe should be recommended.
6. That all house drains are air-tight.
Note.— Where there is reason for believing that any house drain is imperfect,
notice must, if necessary, be given to the Surveyor, who will provide workmen
for opening it up for examination.
7. That all special soil pipes be air-tight at the joints, and carried, full
diameter, above the roof, at a safe distance from windows and chimney
tops.
8. That all rain water-pipes used as soil pipes be air-tight at the joints.
Note.—The use of "combined soil and rain water pipes" is a bad arrangement
and should be discountenanced.
It only remains to mention that at the present writing (June),
the regulations are in course of being applied in respect of a few
houses, and that the work of registration is proceeding, but very
slowly. The reasons are not far to seek, for, in the first place, no
addition to the staff of officers has been made, and the work is
being earned out, as far as practicable, by the Sanitary Inspectors,
all of whom, moreover, have just been made Inspectors under the
Adulteration Act; and, in the second place, registration has proved
very distasteful to the owners and keepers of the houses proposed
to be registered, who have taken advantage of the opportunity
afforded by the terms of the first regulation to delay registration
by every possible objection, the keepers, moreover, of the several
houses having uniformly neglected to attend at your Vestry's
offices to supply the necessary information.