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Yards paved imperviously with stone or concrete in 535
premises.
Water supplied direct from the main, in lieu of cisterns,
in 280 premises.
Walls and ceilings cleansed and repaired in 210 dwellings ; and
roofs repaired in 82.
4,799 separate conditions, dangerous to health, were removed
and 801 dwellings were made more suitable for health.
CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY has, on the whole, continued
to work well, and it supplies the inhabitants with fresh and clean
water instead of the stagnant, unclean water of butts and
cisterns.
Inhabitants have complained that they have suffered much
inconvenience arising from the water being turned off at the mains
when it is wanted during the night.
Ages of experience—deaths in numbers beyond calculation—
has shewn, that collected decomposing organic matters are the
promoters of epidemic and other diseases in mind and body;
and when, as in large cities, such matters are unavoidably
collected, the overflow of air and water, the sun's power and light
are the great preventatives and disinfectants.
395 cases of contagious disease were reported to the Sanitary
Department, 223 of which were cases of small pox.
Much of Inspector Fletcher's time has been occupied in
securing the isolation of the infected sick, and for that purpose
137 persons were removed to the Small Pox Hospital, 61 could
not be removed, and 25 died; also in the disinfection of the
infected houses.
In the early part of last autumn the Metropolitan Asylums
Board expressed apprehension that they would not be able to