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28 Sanitary Circumstances.
NOTIFICATIONS OF DIRTY HOMES BY SCHOOL
NURSES.
Number of Notifications received in 1912 11
Number of Homes visited by stuff of Public Health
Department 11
Number of Homes disinfected 7
Number of Notices served upon owners in consequence
of these visits 5
Any other points of interest (e.g.) efficiency of methods
of dealing with rooms infested with vermin:—
After notification of a verminous condition by School Nurses,
an Inspector visits the home, when, if necessary, cleansing and
disinfection are done, but in many cases the actual and only clothing
is infested and the boy or girl is probably absent from the home.
This is where a cleansing station would be of great value.
DRAINAGE.
For Urban Districts which have adopted the Public Health
(Amendment) Act, 1890, the interpretation of "drain" is different.
Whereas under Public Health Act, 1875, if one or more houses
drain into a common pipe such common pipe or combined drain is
a sewer; under Section 19 of the Amendment Act, the common pipe
is deemed to be a sewer only if all the houses belong to one owner;
if they belong to more than one owner, then the common pipe is
a drain repairable at the owner's expense. This amendment is
confusing and difficult in its working.
REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL OF REFUSE.
The amount of refuse collected during the year was 10,164
loads, and up to within the last few months, the refuse has been
disposed of by barging away, but is now disposed of by being burnt
in a Heenan and Froude Refuse Destructor having three of the