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a year, during the vacations, and I hope the Council
will prevail upon the Managers to carry out the practice.
Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909.—
The Medical Officer and the Sanitary Inspector were
instructed to draw up a joint report concerning the
inspection of the district, and to present it to a SubCommittee
appointed to consider such report. This
has been done. But as the report had not up to the
time of writing been before the Council, nothing has
yet been done, up to the end of the year. Since then
Mr. Abbott, the Sanitary Inspector, has been appointed
to do the work.
Street Paving.—A new departure in the
matter of paving the footpaths of the public highways
in the District was commenced this year, artificial
granite slab paving being used instead of tar paving.
The new material makes a bright looking even path,
and is generally appreciated by the residents of the
District. The tar paving in many places is quite
worn out, and owing to settlements of the ground and
other causes, frequently holds large pools of water in
wet weather, and large cracks and fissures are formed
by the action of tree roots beneath the surface. The
slab paving has been laid in part of Lyonsdown Road,
the Crescent, Barnet Hill, Station Road, East Barnet
Road at New Barnet Triangle, Lancaster Road,