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fective drainage has to be wholly, or to a large extent,
abolished and removed."
In my next report, namely that for the year 1889-90,
I drew attention to the amount of work under the new
rules which had then been carried out systematically for
one year, to the falling off that had necessarily taken place
in the ordinary sanitary work of the parish, and to the fact
that the Act for the Notification of Infectious Diseases had
come into operation in the October of the year to which the
report related, and that hence heavy additional duties had
been thrown on your Sanitary Officers. The remarks
which I then made in reference to the above matters were
as follows:—
"The amount" of the sanitary work done by your
Inspectors in the course of the year ending March 25th,
1890, "is very considerable. But as I anticipated would
be the case the primary inspections have fallen off considerably,
and their total number is nearly 2,000 less than
in the previous year, and not half so many as were carried
out annually a few years since. But re-inspections, for the
purpose of seeing that works required to be done have been
duly carried out, have largely increased. The explanation
is simple, and has been given in former reports. It is that
during the last few years the Inspectors, acting under my
directions, have paid more and more close attention to
defects of drainage, which implies a much closer and more
exhaustive examination of premises than they had been in
the habit formerly of bestowing thereon, and a much more
frequent subsequent examination of premises in regard to
which orders have been made; and that during the last
year the regulations with respect to the drainage of new