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Annexe P.
REPORT OF THE SANITARY SURVEYOR.
NEW HOUSE DRAINS.
1. Plans have been deposited and passed by me during the year for the drainage of 123 houses. The plans of 219 were carried forward from 1905 making a total of 342 in hand during the year.
2. The drainage of 192 houses has been completed and the plans for 40 have been cancelled leaving 110 to carry forward to 1907.
RE-DRAINAGE AND ADDITIONS.
3. In addition to the above, plans for re-drainage of or additions to the drainage of 136 houses were carried forward from 1905 and new plans have been received for 289 houses making a total of 425 for the year.
Of these 316 have been completed and 35 cancelled, leaving 74 to be carried forward to 1907.
4. A summary of the above is appended in Tables A, B, and C.
INSPECTION OF PRIVATE HOUSE DRAINS.
5. The drains of 367 houses have been tested and reported on, in consequence of com- plaints having been received regarding them.
Of this number 160 required reconstructing, 114 amending and 93 were found to be in good order.
Notices were served on the owners of 231 houses calling upon them to execute the necessary work. All of these have been complied with. In 43 instances the work was car- ried out by the owners without notices being served upon them. 6,260 houses have been visited by the Drainage Inspectors with the result that 960 drainage nuisances have been dis- covered. 88 houses were found to have inadequate provision for carrying off rain water from the roofs. Notices have been served in each case on the owner or occupier, calling upon them to abate the nuisance. All of these have been complied with.
All of these have been complied with. 35 nuisances have been referred to the Medical Officer of Health and 213 to the Hon. Director of Public Works to be dealt with by them.
Four hundred and twenty-eight choked drain traps on private property have been cleansed by the Drainage Foremen.
WATER CLOSETS AND URINALS.
6. During the past year water closets and urinals have been erected in the following buildings by permission of the Board and with the exception of those at the Milling Co. which discharge into Junk Bay have been connected to the public sewers.
Water
Closets.
Trough Closets,
Urinals.
Connaught Road Central (E. E. Telegraph Co.),
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Do.
(B. & S.'s Office),
1
Pedder Street (Hotel Mansions),
Junk Bay (Milling Co.),
No. 16 Des Vœux Road Central, Ice House Street (St. George's Club),
10
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1
17
2
6