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21 MAY, 1890. 55
"During the fortnight ending May 3rd, the number
"of Births was 152: the number of Deaths from all causes
"was 83-24 occurring in the Western, 50 in the Eastern
"district, and 9 in the outlying institutions, giving a
"death-rate equal to 18.5 per 1,000 per annum: that of
the Metropolis being 18.3 for the same period."
(4) That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read reports
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
That having regard to the Reports of your Medical Officer
and Sanitary Inspectors 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) No. 135, Sidney Street—
To properly drain the stable thereat.
(b) Two houses, Miller's Cottages, Redman's Road—
To properly cleanse the whole of the houses, and provide
ground floor rooms with proper light and ventilation.
(c) Nos. 23 and 25, Knott Street—
To properly cleanse the walls, passages and ceilings thereof.
(d) Nos. 49 to 69, 70 and 74, Knott Street—
To remove the dampness from the walls, and also the cause.
To re-instate the floor boards where necessary.
To provide proper ventilation beneath the floor boards :
and further,
That in the event of such orders not being complied with
within a reasonable time, the necessary proceedings
be taken to close the houses, the same being unfit for
human habitation.
(e) Two houses adjoining St. Paul's Schools—
To disconnect water tor domestic purposes from that used
for flushing the closets, and disconnect sinks from drains.
(f) Nos. 1, 5, 33, James Street; and 1 to 8, May's
Buildings—
To pave the yards thereat.
(g) Nos. 1, 13, 36, James Street; and 19, Jamaica
Street—
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(h) No. 3, James Street—
To properly cleanse such house.
(i) Nos. 11, 12, James Street; 13 to 21, 25 to 37, 43,
45, 55 to 63, 67 to 75, 83, 87 to 103, 115, 119, 121,
Jamaica Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.