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houses. Other sanitary defects remedied were 102
defective and leaky drains, 64 choked drains, 194
insufficient water supplies to water-closets, 108 defective
soil-pipes and drain ventilators, 596 premises
requiring repairing and cleansing, and 96 drinking
water cisterns so placed, constructed or kept as to
render the water therein liable to contamination,
causing or likely to cause risk to health.
With regard to the inspection of the Sulhamstead
Estate, I reported that many of the houses contain
basements, and that as a number of the underground
rooms are used for sleeping purposes, care was exercised
to ensure that the provisions of sub-section 7 of
Section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act,
1909, were not contravened. I also suggested for the
consideration of the Public Health Committee, the
question of making Regulations under the Section
referred to. The Committee decided to make Regulations
with respect to such rooms, and they are now
awaiting the consent of the Local Government Board.
In the Strand-on-the-Green area, my attention was
called to the overcrowded and insanitary state of a
house in Waldeck Road, particulars of which were
entered in the Nuisance Register, and in respect of
which notices were served on the occupiers. The
house was let in three tenements, and after making
several inspections of the first floor flat, I was compelled
to ask for instructions to issue summonses
against the. first floor occupiers, who were living in an
extremely filthy state. Orders were made against the
defendants, who were severely cautioned, and they