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The single private drain between Nos. 73 and 75, Hartfield
Crescent, and taking the drainage of Nos. 51 to 73, and Nos. 75 to
81, was reconstructed in default of the owners (3 in number) 2 of
whom paid their proportion when the account was rendered. The
main drain at rear was also relaid in default of the owner, and a
summons for the recovery of the costs incurred was heard before the
Magistrates on the 19th of August. After a lengthy hearing and
considerable legal arguments, the Bench decided in favour of the
Council, but consented to state a case for the opinion of the High
Court on a point of law, at the request of the Defendant's solicitor
which is pending.
Public A considerable amount of work of a sanitary nature has been
Elementary rarried out at these schools on the instruction or representation of the
Local Education Authority ; such as the ventilation improved, sanitary
conveniences cleansed and repaired, ceilings whitened, upper part of
walls distempered, and woodwork painted, at the Central, Effra Road,
Haydon's Road, Cottenham Park and Roman Catholic Schools;
the play-grounds paved at the Effra Road, Dundonald, and Queen's
Road Schools ; and the Drainage repaired at the Central Infants,
Haydon's Road Girls and Infants, Cottenham Park, Roman Catholic
and Queen's Rpad Schools.
The collection and delivery of house refuse at the refuse des-
House refuse
Collection & tructor is executed by the Surveyor's Department, and has, I believe,
disposal. been carried out in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. 9172 loads
of refuse were burnt at the refuse destructor during the year.
Gypjjgj Early in March a number of gypsies with their caravans, tents,
Plough lane &c., encamped on a piece of land opposite the Plough Inn, Plough
Lane, and on March 9th several letters v/ere received complaining
principally of thefts committed by these people and the serious
nuisance from them.
The spot was visited by the Sanitary Inspector, who found 28
caravans, several tents, between 80 and 90 children and a large
number of adults. There were no sanitary conveniences of any kind,
the field was low lying and swampy, water standing from 1 to 6 inches
deep over the surface, and the whole encampment was in a most insanitary
condition. The occupiers were instructed to move away and
were given until 5 p.m. to do so. Notices were served on them under
the byelaws relating to tents, vans, sheds and similar structures, but,
as some delay would have necessarily occurred before proceedings