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SANITARY WORK
Carried out during the Year.
The work of my department has been steadily going on
during the year, the house to house inspection of the district
has been expedited and in large numbers of streets a second
house to house inspection has been made; in the first inspection
very many important improvements were effected under
our supervision, such as water supply to W.Cs., separating
the drinking water from that used to supply cisterns for flushing
the W.Cs., dustbins provided, etc.; in the second inspection
more time has been devoted to the reconstruction of the drainage
of individual houses, the drains of hundreds of houses have
been tested, and when found to be defective have been remedied.
I consider that a proper water supply and proper drainage
system the most essential conditions for the health of the people,
and in seeing that the drainage of houses is properly carried out
the Inspectors have had to use much tact and discretion in
getting the amount of work done which they have, with so little
expense to the Vestry. In some districts in the Metropolis the
house drainage has cost the Vestries hundreds of pounds,
whilst in this Hamlet although proportionatelv more house
drains have been re-constructed it has cost the Vestry comparatively
little.
On referring to the appended Table will be found a summary
of the work carried out by the Inspectors, which will prove to
be of an instructive character and will shew at once that your
Inspectors, who are second to none in the Metropolis, have an
interest in their work.
On looking at the district as a whole and comparing it with
its condition of a few years ago, one cannot help being struck