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and I furnished a special report to the Council in
January, 1898, which will appear in the Annual
Report for that year. These buildings have besides
privies, so many sanitary defects as to make them
unfit for human habitation. Besides those special
inspections which were reported at the Council's
Monthly Meetings, I made, in company with the
with the Inspector of Nuisances, a Systematic
Inspection of the District in October and November.
In many places the recurrent sanitary defects were
found, such as defective drains, broken traps, dirty
yards, leaky taps, accumulation of rubbish and
manure, animals, principally fowls and rabbits kept
in a dirty and sometimes too confined space,
defective dustbins, etc. Many of these minor
nuisances were at once abated by calling the
occupiers' attention to their existence, others were
removed after the serving of notices. Much good
is effected through these inspections as they afford
an opportunity of impressing upon the inhabitants
the advantage of cleanliness and of getting them
to understand, that it is for their own benefit as
well as for that of the district, that the Council
insists upon their premises being kept clean and
sanitary. Advice was constantly given to the
occupiers to pay attention to their cisterns and
clean them out frequently.
ROADS.
In addition to the roads mentioned in my last
annual report as being scheduled for repair, the
following have since been added:—Clarence Road,
Cedars Road and Lindum Road, though I am
sorry to say the work has not made much progress,
whilst the roads are all in a deplorable, dirty and
insanitary condition,