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to systematically empty and clean out all collections of

standing water.

This could be most conveniently done

by a Sanitary Inspector making a weekly visit to those gardens,

and calling attention to any water containing larvae. One hour

a week would suffice as the matter would become merely a general

oversight if done systematically.

Some of the gardens grow water-cresses,

but the cressplots are not water logged, and I do not think the

industry need be meantime interfered with.

7.

Kennedy Town Nullahs.

The nullahs to the West of the Mortuary I

can best localize by means of a sketch-plan of the district,

and I have lettered it to correspond with a similar plan in-

cluded in my report of 7th. February, 1901, in C.S.0.451/1901,

for convenience of reference.

It will be convenient also to deal with

the district as a whole, and to begin with the most important

nullah, marked "A", that passing the Cattle Depôt Caretaker's

house.

Nullah "4" is being used by the Washer-

med,

who were transferred to this nullah from its branch "C",

after my observation that branch "C" used by them previously

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