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and where opportunity afforded, Ventilating Shafts were
carried up flank walls of houses to discharge into the upper
air instead of at the road surface.
SEWERS, REPAIR AND CLEANSING
The Local Sewers are cleansed by the flushers in the
employ of the Vestry. The quantity of slop removed from
the same during the past year has been 332 cart loads.
Special attention was also given to the cleansing of
Gullies.
HOUSE DRAINAGE.
294 applications have been received for the drainage
of 684 houses into and the works in connection therewith
have been carried out under inspection. This number
includes mainly the reconstruction and the re-modelling of
the drainage of old houses as well as the drainage of new
property. Several Factories and Blocks of Stabling have
also been drained.
COMBINED DRAINAGE,
According to the Resolution of the Vestry of the 18th
June, 1890, has been sanctioned wherever it has been shewn
that such combination had a sanitary advantage over
Seperate drainage.
The interior or private portion of the drainage has
been supervised by the staff in the Sanitary Department.