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TO THE
Urban District Council of Barnes.
Jamuary, 1898.
Gentlemen,
I have again to present to you what I believe you will
consider a satisfactory Report of the Sanitary Condition of the
District.
I have made the usual house to house inspections of the
district, sometimes in company with the Inspector; they have
been made principally in localities where sickness has been
prevalent, or when there has been reason to believe that Sanitary
defects have existed. The alteration to the drainage of the
Thorne Estate in the Westfields has been completed in a
satisfactory manner. The Dust Removal has been effected in a
way that leaves no room for improvement in a sanitary point of
view. Most of the Private Roads which were in an unwholesome
condition have been properly made up and adopted. Altogether
steady advance has been made in the sanitary condition generally.
There are some defects which will have to be remedied,
especially in Mortlake, where—by some oversight—the house
drains were not re-laid and properly disconnected and ventilated
at the time the new sewers were laid; this is now being done, but it
can only be effected gradually. The New Sewerage system has
done much in improving the health and comfort of the