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225 letters, in addition to ordinary notices have been addressed
to owners of property, and many re-inspections had to bo made to
ensure the work being done in a proper manner.
A few cases are again detailed to show tho character of tho work
that has been done.
LANGBOURNE BUILDINGS, MODEL DWELLINGS.—in
this block there are 90 separate suites of apartments arranged in
pairs, for each pair there is one common water closet, situate in
one common scullery external to living apartments. The closets
were generally very foul, none being properly supplied with
water, the cisterns in which drinking water was stored were all
uncovered, placed over the water closets close to the ceilings and
immediately under the closet of the apartments above, drinking
water was thus not only exposed to contamination by odours
and matters arising within the foul closets and sculleries in.
which it was kept, but also from foul liquids dripping from the
ceilings, caused by defective arrangements of tho closets above.
Notices were served on the owner requiring the abatement
of these nuisances, in compliance with which the whole of the
cisterns have been removed, water is supplied direct from the
main, and waste preventor cisterns have been supplied to each
closet.
ALBERT BUILDINGS, MODEL DWELLINGS.—In this
block there are 54 suites of apartments, each suite has a separate
water closet which is placed within the walls of the apartments.
These closets were not provided with flushing apparatus. Water
for drinking purposes was stored in cisterns placed on the roofs.
The foul state of the water was much complained of by the
tenants. On inspection the cisterns were found in a very filthy