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merit would be of no avail. Enteric Fever is treated in the Kingston
Victoria Hospital, payment being made by the Corporation
The isolation in hospital of ordinary cases of Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria has not been found necessary. Cases rarely spread in
the households and cases of infection being carried to other houses
are unknown as far as I have been able to ascertain.
Disinfection is by burning sulphur in the rooms or by spraying
with formalin. Bedding, &c. is sent to Lacey's, Wandsworth,
but a disinfector at the Dust Destructor is under consideration.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT.
The following 152 houses have been inspected during the
year. The general conditions found are set forth and a statement
is given of improvements affected and the present condition of
affairs.
Fairfield South—4 houses; Brook's Passage—2 houses;
Brook's Cottages—4 houses: Mill Place—2 houses. These
houses are all close together and belong to one owner. Brook's
Cottages, 4 houses in a row, are comparatively modern and in
good structural condition, the others, semi-detached, are much
older, possibly a hundred years, and might be described as wornout
houses. The bricks are of poor quality and the design and
workmanship indifferent.
The requirements set forth were pointing of brickwork,
cementing of walls, paving of yards, repair or renewal of guttering
and stack pipes, cement concrete over the floor area and proper
flushing cisterns to the w.c.'s
Some of the work has been done and the rest is in slow progress.
The owner has no capital and is obliged to have the work
done as she is able to pay for it out of her rents as they are collected
weekly.
Portman Road.—Ten pairs of Houses, semi-detached on
either side of the road. Buildings of indifferent materials and
workmanship. The remaining houses in the road are quite modern