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to avoid that pasty mass of foul animal matter from
forming where roads are watered, or receive the moisture
of rain. Evaporation of the mass in the sun is offensive
to the senses, and a positive contamination of the
atmosphere. Such air, if breathed while charged with
animal exhalation, has been found favorable to the
production of disease.
The Ventilation and Flushing of Sewers.
It has been the custom during several summer
seasons for the drains in certain parts of the parish to
be flushed by order of the Sanitary and Public Health
Committee. I am satisfied that some of the intercepting
drains are in a foul state, judging from the very numerous
complaints of smell from sewage gas arising from
gullies and open ventilators in the streets. During the
summer weather, surface and storm water after a shower,
acts beneficially in trapping the gulleys, and in diluting
and carrying off foul deposits, but in the absence of this
artificial flushing the gulley emits smell, and there are
elements of danger ; therefore flushing ought periodical
to be regularly provided. Some of the worst instances,
best known to the Surveyor and the staff, demand, in
in my opinion, his special attention, and the removal
may become a question for the Highway Committee to
discuss.
Common Lodging-Houses.
There are not a large number in this Parish, and
they are all well kept and clean. The Police do
their duty well. Special instructions were issued to
them at the beginning of the Small Pox epidemic.