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month. The proceedings since taken with respect
to the other houses will be recorded in my next
annual statement.
Several times during the year the Sanitary
Committee have directed their attention to the
defective drainage of Alfred Road, Waverley Road,
and Orchard Street. The houses in all these
streets are drained on the same plan as those in
North Wharf Road above referred to; the drainage
of each house being received by a main pipe-drain,
which passes beneath its back yard, instead of
being conveyed forwards into a sewer in front.
On the 6th of April I reported that in consequence
of the obstruction of the main drain near
its outlet, the yards and forecourts of a number of
houses were flooded with sewage, and that the
same evil had occurred to my knowledge several
times previously, to the great detriment of the
health of the inhabitants. The matter was then
referred to the Surveyor for a report as to the
works necessary for the improvement of the
drainage. This officer having expressed his
opinion that in order to remedy the evil effectually
it would be necessary to construct new sewers in
each of the streets in question, it was resolved to
refer the matter to the Highway Committee. No
steps having been taken with respect to it, it was
again brought under the notice of the Sanitary
Committee on the 21st of September, in