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Two single private drains, one receiving the
drainage of four houses and one the drainage of
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two houses belonging to different owners, and the
drains of eleven houses have been re-laid by the
Council in default of the owners complying with
the notices served.
Combined drains, used for the drainage of
three blocks of houses, each block belonging to
the same owner, have been re-laid at a cost to the
Council of £79 12s. 7d., each drain being a sewer
within the meaning of Section 4 of the Public
Health Act, 1875.
Owing to a report I made upon the insanitary
condition of the drainage of a private school, the
Council considered it desirable that the drains
belonging to all schools, both public and private,
should be examined and tested annually, and they
instructed the Clerk to write to the managers and
owners of the various schools asking for their
permission for the Sanitary Inspector to make
such examination.
There are five public elementary and fourteen
private schools in the district.
The managers of all the public elementary
schools and seven of the owners of the private
schools gave their consent. Six did not reply to
the letter sent, and one, the principal of a girls'
school refused, but at the same time stated that
she preferred her own Surveyor to make the
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