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Sanitary Inspection.
The appended returns of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
(to whose skill and diligence I beg to bear witness)
will show in detail that a large amount of useful work
has been carried out, and I have had occasion, in my
monthly reports, to bring before your notice a certain
number of insanitary and dilapidated houses which
required both cleansing and repairing. I refer more
especially to those known as Essex Place, Turnham
Green, which are not only old and dilapidated, but
damp, with serious structural defects in some, such as
bulging and cracked brickwork, rendering them in
their present condition uninhabitable, and I hope that
in the near future they will be pulled down and
replaced by a block of workmen's dwellings, similar
to those at Strand-on-the-Green. •
Whilst on the subject of general sanitary administration,
I have every reason to believe that our system
of scavenging maintains its usual efficiency. The
general system of drainage is up to the usual standard
of excellence and there can be no stronger proof of this
than the fact that in spite of the considerable increase
of new roads with their contributory new drains
completed during recent years with a resulting
large population, the existing main drains have proved
themselves competent to deal with the extra quantity
of sewage passing through them. The construction of a
distinct surface water system has doubtless contributed
materially to that result.
Sewage Disposal Works.
I am indebted to your Engineer of these works for
the following details of the alterations and extensions
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