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ably instructed the Town Clerk to communicate with the
defaulters, which was sufficient to bring about the desired
result.
In reviewing the details of the year's work it will be seen
that the house-to-house inspection of cottages has been kept
well up to the mark, but it was not thought necessary for
various reasons, to test the drains at half the 688 houses
visited.
There was a less amount of work done under the Factory
and Workshop Acts, but more attention was necessarily directed
to infectious cases, Consumption, and precautions against
Summer Diarrhœa.
As to the latter disease, a rapid inspection was made of
over 300 of the smallest houses in the month of August, when
the insanitary conditions found were not numerous. It was
also obvious that precautions were being taken by the occupiers,
particularly as to the cleansing of the back yards, many
of which had been paved in consequence of previous notices
served, and it generally appeared that the warning leaflets,
issued to householders, resulted in much good, having regard
to the standard of cleanliness which was found by the Inspectors.
A few urgent defects were promptly remedied, and
other matters were dealt with in the routine way.
OFFICE STAFF.
The Staff in the Sanitary Department consists of one
Inspector and two Assistant Inspectors, the same as for the
past ten years.