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268 18 FEBRUARY, 1891.
(4) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the owners of such of the houses
and premises who fail to carry out the orders of your Board
in respect of cleansing the drains within twenty-four hours,
and in respect of the other sanitary works within twenty-eight
days from the service of the notice, and that the Chairman
sign the necessary orders in each particular case, empowering
the Inspector of Nuisances for the district in which the
premises are situate to make complaints and take proceedings
on behalf of the Vestry.
(5) That your Committee considered the letter of the Local
Government Board Re the employment of the unemployed
referred by your Board, and beg to report—That there are no
works likely to be required to be carried out which can conveniently
be put in hand at once.
(6) That your Sanitary Inspectors reported that since the last
meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:
Notices served for sanitary amendments 88
„ „ Re infectious diseases 16
Houses inspected 223
„ re-inspected 115
„ disinfected 11
Drains cleansed 23
Drains tested 5
Water supply provided to closets 43
Water supply for domestic purposes separated
from cisterns which supply the closets 19
Waste pipes of sinks disconnected from direct
communication with the drains 13
Offensive accumulation removed 1
geo. coker.
Signed charles birks.
t. g. livermore.
Moved by Mr. Coker seconded by Mr. Birks and resolved
—That the Report be received.
Moved by Mr. Coker seconded by Mr. Burge and resolved
—That the Report be adopted and it was resolved accordingly.
IX. The Clerk submitted and read Report of the Medical
Officer of Health of this date, on the condition of Nos. 37, 39,
and 41, Ocean Street, and also submitted notice from Mr. Cox,
Inspector of Nuisances, of the existence of a nuisance injurious
to health at the same houses.
Moved by Mr. Padfield seconded by Mr. Coker and resolved
—That the necessary notices to abate the several nuisances
within twenty-four hours be served on the several owners,