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promptly complied with. No legal proceedings have been
necessary in any case dealt with, and it is exceedingly
satisfactory to find the very ready and willing responses
with which my instructions and demands are invariably
met with. I have made 231 inspections during the twelve
months without encountering the slightest obstruction or
objection to my visits.
The adoption of the more important system of
sanitation is gradually increasing and forty.five houses
have been re.drained during the year.
The building bye.laws continue to be well observed,
and houses of the speculative character which have
recently been erected will, I am convinced, bear a most
favourable comparison with similar erections in any
neighbourhood within measurable distance of Surbiton.
The amended regulations have been returned to the
Local Government Board for the third time and it is
anticipated that they will very shortly be returned to
the Council fully confirmed, and that the Council will
soon possess the advantage of enforcing the improved
system of sanitation, viz.—the power to demand watertight
drains and to prevent any house being occupied
without a certificate from the Council.
The sewers of the district have been regularly
inspected and flushed with disinfectants during the year,
and observations are made at regular intervals throughout
their entire length, and reliable evidence obtained of their
satisfactory condition and that their constant flow to the
outfall is being well maintained, and it is very gratifying to
state that during the floods of November when the river
rose to nearly 10 feet above its summer level not a house
in the district was inconvenienced, whilst many of the
surrounding localities, particularly Kingston, had large
numbers of their dwellings filled with the discharge from
their sewers.