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18 DECEMBER, 1889.
(3) That having regard to the Report of your Surveyor your
Committee resolved to recommend—
That notices be served upon the owners of Nos. 55 to 81
(odd), St. Peter's Street, requiring them to drain such houses
and premises into the sewer in St. Peter's Street, the present
drainage of such houses being defective and insufficient.
That your Medical Officer of Health brought up and read
a Report for which your Committee beg to refer your Board
to his Report Book.
(4) That your Medical Officer reported as follows :
"During the two weeks ending November 30th, the
"number of Births has been 143. The number of Deaths
"from all causes was 89, giving a death-rate of 19.8,
"that of the Metropolis being 16.9 for the same
"period."
That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read Reports
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
(5) That having regard to such Reports your Committee resolved
to recommend—That notices be served upon the owners of
the following houses and premises, requiring them to perform
the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 2 to 8, Edgar Place ; 1 to 4, Victoria Place; and
51 to 57, Devonshire Street—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(b) Nos. 1, 3, and 8, Hewitt's Court, Jubilee Street—
To properly trap the drains thereat.
(c) Nos. 1, 2, and 8, Hewitt's Court, Jubilee Street; 11
to 23, Jubilee Street; 41, Raven Row—
To provide proper water-supply to the closets thereat.
(d) No. 8, Hewitt's Court, Jubilee Street—
To properly pave the wash-house floor thereat.
(6) That your Inspectors reported that since the last meeting
the following works had been performed, viz:
East. West. Total.
Water supply provided to closets 25 27 52
Yards paved 7 11 18
Receptacles for dust provided 14 7 21
Houses disinfected 11 5 16
„ cleansed 0 7 7
Drains cleansed 4 2 6
„ tested 0 5 5
(7) That your Inspector (Mr. Cox) under the Adulteration of
Food, &c. Acts, submitted two Certificates of your Analyst,
stating that the samples submitted to him for analysis for
Butter was not Butter but Margarine.