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Soil-pipe inside the house, and unventilated. W.C.
on landing, a "long hopper" pan, foul and insufficiently
flushed. Cistern foul. One water supply.
Kilburn Park Road.—Ground opened. Drain defective.
Joints open. Soil saturated with sewage.
Apparently no intercepting syphon. Soil pipe serves
as rain-water pipe, the joints of which are defective.
W.C.'s in basement and on first floor landing are
"wash-outs," with water-waste preventers. Separate
water supply.
In London there were 122 deaths, equivalent to
an annual rate of 0.11 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Diarrhoea caused 12 deaths—9 in St. Mary's and
3 in St. John's Sub-district—equivalent to an annual
rate of 0.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In London there were 757 deaths, equivalent to
an annual rate of 0.72 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The Canal Basin.
The Canal Basin was emptied on Saturday, April
1st, and re-filled with water on the 5th. About 500
tons of mud were removed. The concreting of the
bottom of the Basin now extends from South Wharf
Road up to and under Bishop's Road Bridge.