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During the last eight years the total number
of houses re-drained is 937. In every instance this
re-drainage was consequent upon complaint or
knowledge of an existing nuisance or of defective
sanitary conditions and all of these have been
abated or remedied. The amount of illness with
its concomitants of suffering, distress and expense
thereby prevented must be enormous and very well
worth both the public and private expenditure, and
the chances of the dirt diseases—which are all of a
preventable character—flourishing and making
headway are remote indeed as long as such a system
prevails. The measures taken to bring about
these results are good sewers and drains, good
water, sanitary houses, fresh air and wholesome
food. Add to theseefficient scavenging, clean roads,
well swept and watered, the frequent emptying
of dustbins and the removal of offensive matter—
then surely the health, happiness and well-being
of people living in such surroundings must be
vastly better than in those where narrow-minded,
interested or prejudiced views obtain.
Owing to the extensive operations in connection
with the laying down of the new surface
water drainage, new sewers in anticipation of the
coming of the tramways, electric lighting cables
and telephone wires, combined with much wet and
changeable weather, the main roads, the pavements
and a large number of streets have been broken up