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The duty of the Medical Officer of Health under these Acts
is to certify that in his opinion the house is so constructed as to
afford suitable accommodation for the families or persons inhabitating
it and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements.
It is for the Inland Revenue Authorities to make enquiries
that the rent paid comes within the amount prescribed in the Act.
Sanitary
Improvement.
Among the works in hand and carried out that affect the
Sanitary conditions of the District the following may be mentioned:—
Diversion
of
Middle
Level
Sewer.
The diversion of the middle level sewer at a point before
reaching the cemetery will not only prevent the floodings which
have taken place in the past, but provide additional burial ground
sufficient for 145 grave spaces, or accommodation for about 450
interments.
Refuse
Destructor.
The wish expressed in my last Annual Report that the refuse
of the district would soon be disposed of by means of the Refuse
Destructor at the Electric Lighting Station, has not been realised,
owing to some unforeseen circumstances having arisen which prevents
its present use.
Private
Roads.
The following roads have been made up during the year and
declared "Highways repairable by the inhabitants at large."
Alexandra Mews.
Ashley Road.
Balfour Road.
Broadway Yard.
Faraday Road.
Garfield Road.
Lake Road.
Merton Hall Road.
Vineyard Hill Road.
Contracts were entered into for making up the following
roads, which have not yet been completed:—
Cowdrey Road.
Hotham Road.
Leopold Road.
Tennyson Road.
House
Drainage.
The drains of 264 houses and premises have been entirely
reconstructed, and laid to stand the water test, with manholes, etc.,
for inspection and cleaning purposes.
The following blocks of houses have been redrained:—
20 to 27, Crooked Billet, 8 houses.