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91
No. of houses inspected
Thurston Road
Springfield
Plane Street
Fir Street
Edney Street
Rosamond Street
Oaksford Avenue
Beadnell Road
Wells Road
Mill Lane
Rowland Grove
79
50
10
20
16
11
18
15
14
8
46
The total number of houses inspected was 609, and
various nuisances were found in 548, or 90 per cent., of the
houses.
The drainage was found defective in 182 instances,
necessitating relaying. In 302 instances the nuisances related
to dirty premises, and the remaining defects were of a minor
character.
During the year I represented to your Council the
necessity of appointing an additional Sanitary Inspector in
order that this branch of the work of the Department might
receive greater attention, and in December a first-class Inspector
was appointed exclusively for house-to-house duty. He has
unfortunately been unable to do as much as one would have
wished in consequence of the indisposition of one of the district
inspectors, whose place he had to fill temporarily. ' It is
anticipated that during the ensuing year a large amount of this
desirable work will be carried out.
INFECTED ARMY BLANKETS.—During May information
was received that some Contractors had purchased quantities of
Army blankets, which had arrived from South Africa, and which
had been proved by bacteriological examination to be infected
with typhoid fever. Acting on this information it was discovered
that some of the blankets had been sent to the Girls' Industrial