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owners of property are willing to carry out work when a
request in the form of an ordinary letter is made by this
Department, without the necessity of further steps being
taken.
Every facility is given at all times by means of letters,
telephone messages and personal interviews to give full
information of the work found necessary, and I think it may
be truly said that the Department has, during the past year,
carried out its somewhat difficult duties in conjunction with
property owners, agents and builders with almost perfect harmony.
Proof of this is undoubtedly demonstrated by the very
rare occasions upon which we are compelled to resort to legal
proceedings.
The time of the Inspectors is greatly taken up by the
inspection of house drains and sanitary fittings, in the course
of house-to-house inspection and after the occurrence of cases
of infectious disease, and the investigation of all complaints
which reach this Department either verbally or in a written
statement.
Appendix Table VI. shows the sanitary work carried out
and the nuisances abated during the year.
House Drainage.— At 102 houses the drainage systems and
sanitary fittings have been entirely re-constructed, and
repairs, in most instances of an extensive nature, have been
executed at 60 other houses.
The following groups of houses were re-drained:—
2 to 16, Graham Road.
50, 51, and 52, Alexandra Road.
9 to 15, Palmerston Road (main under house re-laid
by Council as sewer).
1, North View, Ivy Cottage, North View, and 13,
14, and 15, North View.
2, 4, and 6, Kingswood Road.
A new main was put in at the rear of 2 to 26, Kingswood
Road and junctions provided, so that the houses may be connected
from time to time and the old drains running at present
under the houses abolished.
There were 30 (15 pairs) houses re-drained, 12 being in
Russell Road, 4 in Gladstone Road, and 2 in each of the
following roads:— Graham Road, Pelham Road, Kingswood
Road, Amity Grove, The Broadway, Herbert Road, and Hartfield
Crescent.
At Nos. 4 and 6, Herbert Road, and 69 and 77, Hartfield
Road, the work was, in each case, carried out by the Council
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