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Underground Rooms.
During the past year notices have been served to close the
following underground rooms, they not being in conformity with
Section 103, 18 and 19 Vie., cap. 120, viz.: Nos. 1 and 2, Boundary
How, 9, Charlotte Street, 13, Greorge Street, and 5, William Street.
These rooms are no longer used as dwelling-rooms.
Mortuary.
During the year nine bodies have been received into the
Mortuary, of this number six inquests were held, and the following
verdicts were returned:—
heart disease.
found drowned.
suicide whilst in a
state op
temporary insanity.
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2
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Disinfection.
During the year a large number of infected articles of clothing
and bedding have been disinfected; 61 beds, 88 mattresses, and
722 miscellaneous articles, and 28 houses have been disinfected
with sulphurous acid.
Water Supply.
The samples of water which I have examined have generally
been found bright and well filtered, and the supply has been
abundant. I have scarcely heard a complaint from the public
of the appearance or quality of the supply. As in a former report,
I wish to draw attention to the necessity which exists for a
regular cleansing of cisterns, and to the fact that water is contaminated
by sewer gases from waste pipes, which are in direct
communication with drains, and to urge as a prevention that an
overflow pipe should be brought outside each house, and the end
left exposed to the air instead of being carried into a drain, as is
often the case.