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where opportunity afforded, to carry Ventilating Shafts up
flank walls of houses to carry off sewer emanations into the
upper air instead of discharging at the road level.
SEWERS, REPAIR AND CLEANSING.
The Local Sewers are cleansed by the fiushers in the
employ of the Vestry. The quantity of slop removed from
the same during the past year has been 191 cart loads.
HOUSE DRAINAGE.
225 applications have been received for the drainage
of 519 houses into and the works in connection therewith
have been carried out under inspection. This number
includes the re-modelling of the drainage of old houses as
also the drainage of new property. Several Blocks of
Stabling have also been drained.
As regards Combined Drainage the following resolution
was passed by the Vestry on the 18th June, 1890:—
"That no Combined Drainage be sanctioned by this Vestry
unless it can be shewn that such combination has a sanitary
advantage over separate drainage; and that a plan of any
proposed combined drainage be available for inspection by
the members of the Vestry for five days before such sanction
be given, and that notice when such plans are ready be sent
to the members."
The interior or private drainage is now wholly supervised
by the staff under the control of the Medical Officer,
for which increased duties the staff has been augmented.