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that this risk exists in no small degree where
several cottages discharge into a combined drain,
besides the nuisances created by obstructions caused
by carelessness which may affect other houses than
the one creating it, and consequently the separate
manhole tends in a marked degree to diminish this
risk. Moreover, since it is universally conceded
that it is desirable that the drains of a house should
be adequately and absolutely cut off from a sewer,
as a source of danger, and from every extraneous
source of contamination, by means of a suitable
trap together with an inspection chamber or manhole
as a means of access to such trap, why in the
name of common sense should the occupants of a
cottage, because they live in a cottage, be exposed
to the additional risks incurred by having a more
or less free communication with the drains of their
neighbours ? There has been some opposition to
the application of this bye-law to cottage property
on the ground that the expense of providing
separate manholes is too heavy a charge for small
property, but it is found that the additional cost
is but slight and is more than set off by the great
protection afforded.
We live in an age when advances in sanitary
matters are constant, and we must fall in with
and accept these advances if we wish to keep in the
forefront and maintain the reputation of this place
as a healthy one to live in and as sanitarily perfect
as means admit of.
Dairies.
These have been inspected from time to time
by the sanitary Inspector as required, but it is now
imperative, in view of the public requirements as
to the purity of milk and the ascertaining of the
sources of supply, that the Council should require
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