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last year. The number of preliminary notices sent detailing the
nuisances reported have been materially increased. It usually happens
that the defects mentioned in these notices are remedied without the
necessity of a statutory notice being served, the number of such
notices sent during the year amounted to 98. In very few
instances was it necessary to enforce compliance with these by application
to the Magistrates.
Water Closets without Water Supply.—There are a
number of these within the District. Special attention has been given
by the Sanitary Inspectors to see that they are kept clean and properly
hand flushed. Their existence, however, is undesirable, and they are
only to be found in houses which have been built for a considerable
number of years. Nearly as bad as these are the water-closets with
too small flush tanks; wherever these are found a two gallon flush is
substituted, this being the highest amount allowed by the water
company.
Manure Pits are much more frequently visited and required
to be kept clean. In many cases it is necessary to have these watched
carefully, otherwise the manure is allowed to accumulate and cause a
nuisance.
Slaughter-houses, Bake-houses, and Milkshops and
Dairies.—These are all periodically visited and their condition reported
on from time to time to the Public Health and Hospital Committee.
With regard to the milk sold in the District most comes from outside
sources and I have no reason to attribute any outbreak of infectious
disease to its influence. I have, however, alluded more in detail to
certain dangers likely to arise from the consumption of milk under the
heading of Tuberculous diseases. The milk vendors are always willing
to produce a certificate stating that the farms and dairies from which
the milk is sent are in a sanitary condition.
Analysis of Water.—It has been decided that the water supplied
to the District by the New River Water Company shall be
periodically examined chemically and bacteriologically when required
The chemical examination is to be from a specimen of water taken