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The seventh patient must have got her attack at Ramsgate,
where she went to convalesce after having had scarlet fever,
and where she stayed for nearly three months. A couple of
days after she came home she was found to be suffering from
typhoid.
Bakehouses are in a good sanitary condition, with the
exception of the one I mentioned in my reports for 1895 and
1896, in which I said that the bakehouse and a stable communicate
in such a way as to fill the bakehouse with effluvium
from the stable. A notice has been served on the proprietor
to have the conditions improved, but, so far, it has not been
altered.
Burial grounds are kept in a satisfactory condition from a
sanitary point of view.
Cowsheds and slaughter-houses are also in a satisfactory
condition.
The collection of dust has been carried out satisfactorily.
One cottage has been closed as unfit for human habitation,
on account of its defective sanitary condition; and sixteen
cottages have been put into habitable repair.
Ditches in the district are in a fairly clean condition.
The sanitary improvements effected during the year are:—
Draining the cottages at the lower end of Ilford Lane;
supplying their W.C.s with flushing cisterns, and connecting
the drainage with the main sewer. Completing the sewering
of the Birkbeck Estate; draining the houses on the estate;
and connecting with the main sewer. Water has been laid
on to Bennett's, Castle Lane, from the South Essex Water
Works Co.'s supply. Water supply has also been laid on to
"Reform Place" and "The Diggings."