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Windsor Gardens.—Ground opened. Combined
drainage. Drain defective. Joints open. No intercepting
syphon. Soil-pipe inside the house and
unventilated. W.C. on top floor landing a "short.
hopper" pan with lead D trap beneath. No external
ventilation to closet. One water supply. In this house
the service-pipe was laid in the same trench as the
drain, and was defective. The service being intermittent,
the supply-pipe is at times empty, when it
serves as a conduit for foul air into the cistern from the
trench in which the defective drain is laid, and for
sewage matter when the water is again turned on.
Shirland Road.—Ground opened. Water test.
Drain defective. Iron D traps to surface inlets. No
intercepting syphon. W.C. in yard and on first floor
landing with water-waste preventers. One water supply.
In London there were 105 deaths, equivalent to an
annual rate of 0.10 per 1,000 inhabitants.