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No complaints have been received during the
year that the supply was insufficient or unsatisfactory.
Seventeen notifications were received from the
Metropolitan Water Board that the supply had been
withdrawn from dwelling houses owing to the water
rate not having been paid or where the supply pipes
had been found to be defective and the owners had
neglected or refused to carry out the necessary repairs.
All such houses were at once visited, and the
necessary steps taken to secure the immediate reinstatement
of the supply.
During the year eleven storage cisterns in
dwelling houses were abolished and the water fittings
connected direct to the main.
At twenty-one houses, where the storage cisterns
were necessary owing to the houses being fitted with
a hot water supply, the taps supplying the drinking
water were disconnected from the storage cistern and
connected direct to the main.
Two dirty storage cisterns have been cleansed,
and five defective water pipes or fittings have been
repaired.
Dampness.
Forty-nine defective roofs, causing dampness
inside dwelling houses, have been made weatherproof.
Eleven houses have had the space under the
floors concreted to prevent dampness.
At ten houses air bricks have been fixed in the
outside walls to provide sufficient ventilation under
the floors.