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INSPECTOR'S REPORT.
For the Year 1890-91.
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report of Works
Sanitary Improvements, &c., executed in connection with my
department during the Year ending Lady-day last.
With respect to drainage many works of considerable extent
have been carried out in various parts of the district , and a
very large amount of work on a smaller scale has been carried
out, as well as reconstruction of separate house-drains, w.c.'s,
dust-bins, &c., paving and draining of yards, cleansing, limewashing
and repairing of houses, paving of Courts, &c. All
drainage improvements have been executed on the most
improved ana modem principles, with stoneware pipes jointed
in cement, laid on and covered with concrete, disconnected
from sewer where practicable and provided with man-hole,
inspection chamber, air inlet, and outlet ventilating
shafts. In Bennett Street a very large amount of work has
been carried out. In most of these houses I found that the
drains were old brick barrel drains, in a very bad condition, or
square brick drains simply covered with loose slabs of stone
or wood, and within a few inches of the surface of the basements,
which are used as living rooms. In all these cases
good stoneware pipe drains have been put in as described, and
in many cases isolated blocks of two, three, and four houses
have been dealt with in a similar manner, the details of which
will be found in the tabulated statement annexed.
I have proceeded with the house-to-house inspection with
all possible dispatch, and have inspected during the past year
520 houses in connection with house-to-house inspection alone,
this being quite apart from a large number of houses that
have been inspected in consequence of complaints or where my
attention has otherwise been called to them.
I have in every case, where one cistern was in use for w.c.
and domestic water supply, had a distinct and separate supply
provided, and where possible have abolished the cistern for
domestic purposes, and substituted for same a constant supp y