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8
INSPECTIONS AND VARIOUS
SANITARY WORK.
Various localities were at different times
inspected in connection with infectious diseases or
nuisances. Watts Lane, where eight cases of
Scarlatina occurred, was several times inspected
and no sanitary defect could be found. I received
your instructions to report about the drainage of
some houses in Florence Terrace, King's Road,
where the drainage was faulty. I found the drains
stopped and the cesspool overflowing. After some
delay and the threat of a summons, the owner of
the property remeded the defects by connecting
those houses with the main sewer. Some correspondence
took place between the Council and the
Churchwardens with reference to the dilapidated
condition of the Almshouses, on which I made a
report in 189b, but the negotiations have led to no
practical result, as at my systematic inspection I
found those dwellings in nearly the same condition
as in former years. With the exception of a few
repairs nothing has yet been done to those buildings.
An inspection was made in May of a Gravel Pit in
Munster Road, where a neighbouring district
deposited house refuse. The owner of the land
was written to and the objectionable proceeding
was discontinued. The drainage of Fern Cottages,
Fairfax Road, was found in a very bad condition,
the cesspools were full and the drains stopped.
Notice was served on the owner who abated the
nuisance. Two houses in School House Lane were
found in such a dilapidated state as to make them
unfit for human habitation. After a notice was
served the houses were properly repaired. On
special instruction received from your Council I
made an inspection of eight dwelling houses, known
as American Buildings, Broad Street, in December,