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All the trouble, clangor and expense involved in this matter
originated in the make-shift manner in which the 6" drain was
jointed into the 9" and would have never havo arisen if a proper
pipe had been used to connect the two (that is a tapering pipe
moasuring 6'' at one end and 9" at the other. This was done by
tho Surveyor's men and tho nuisance abated.
LABUHNUM STREET, 50 to 82.—These houses were generally
dirty and dilapidated, drains defective, water closets foul and
dilapidated, not supplied with water, and though external to
houses, so constructed as to bo very dark. The yards were in
tho foulost condition, arising from defective paving and
dilapidated dust bins. Tho back walls were soddened resulting
from dofective rain water pipes, eaves gutters, and defective
paving of yards. Water for drinking purposes was stored in
cisterns placed on top of foul closets.
The owners in compliance with tho Vestry's orders have
oleansed and repaired tho interiors, ro-construoted tho drains
throughout, water has been laid on to all the water closets,
conorete floors provided and construction altered, so that each
closet is now fully lighted. Water is laid on to each house
direct from the main. The yards have been substantially paved
oxtending outwards from the houses 10-ft., and fitted with
properly dished and trapped sinks, at a level adapted for draining
tho unpavod yards to tho roar (which were formerly ponds in
wot weather), and an improved dust bin has been formed for
each house.
MARIA STREET. — Several cases of fever arising in these houses
led to a house to house visitation, and tho discovery not only
of very injurious surface conditions, including bad surface