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all purveyors of milk to register or rather reregister.
Since the last registration some have
discontinued and other have transferred their
businesses, and the purchasers have not in every
case notified their succession and registered.
Following this is the report furnished by
the Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Nesfield. The volume
of work done under his personal supervision and
on his advice is a continually increasing one, and
a perusal of his statement furnishes incontestable
evidence as to his zeal and ability. I am well able
to testify that the sanitary work of this department
has never been so thorough and so up-to-date.
Since his appointment now some 2½ years, no less
than 295 houses have been re-drained, for the most
part entirely, and a considerable amount of drainage
work is at present in progress. The deduction
from all this is that by degrees houses of all
criptions in the place will of necessity become
well drained and increasingly healthy, and its
character as a residential neighbourhood be
immensely added to. Owners have no option but
to have their houses re-drained in a thorouhgly
serviceable manner when defects are discovered,
and it is this process of discovery that is going on
apace and must and will go on until houses are
well drained, for a house of any pretensions is now
scarcely ever let on lease without the incoming
tenant employing experts to test and report on the
sanitary arrangements, with the result as I have
stated above, that drainage that is wrong must be
put right. The working of the Notification Act
also tends in the same direction, for following on
infectious illness or other illness, either as the
consequence of an inspection by the Sanitary
Inspector, or acting on the advice of the Medical
Practitioner, tests are applied, defects discovered,
Sanitary
Inspector's
Report.
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