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closets cleansed and repaired in 605. Water laid on to closets
or restored in 617. Water for drinking and other domestic
purposes supplied direct from the main (without cisterns or
butts) in 526. In 249 premises, old leaky brick drains were
removed and glazed pipes properly constructed were substituted.
295 drains were re-trapped. 28 cesspools emptied
and ground saturated with sewage removed, and replaced with
lime rubbish and earth. Stack pipes communicating with
drains, and their heads dangerously close to bed room
windows, leading sewer gases into the houses, were removed
from 21.3 dwellings. 140 waste pipes of sinks
were properly trapped or ended in the open air; the direct
communication with the sewer having conveyed sewer gases
into the dwellings. Ventilators were provided under the
floors of 65 dwellings. Eaves gutters provided to prevent
water from the roof saturating the walls in 69 premises.
Roofs repaired in 90. Leaking water pipes, causing dampness,
repaired in 10. The yards of 496 dwellings were paved
with impervious material; cement, concrete, or York stone,
to keep the surface soil dry, and allow air to circulate freely
through it, so to oxidize and otherwise render harmless
poisonous gases collected in the ground. Pavement repaired
and rendered impervious in 111 yards; and areas paved and
rendered impervious in 25. Sculleries paved in 78. Areas
constructed to remove dampness in 6 premises; 88 stairs
and 125 floors were repaired to prevent persons being thrown
down and injured.
20 dwellings unfit for human habitation were ordered
to be closed, owing to their dirty dilapidated condition.
In many small premises, having small yards, the
accumulation of dust and other decomposing matter spreads
much dirt through the dwellings; to prevent this the
Sanitary Officer has during the last few years induced
many owners to remove the dust bins from the yards
of the houses and provide public dust bins in much more