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CITY OF PORT ADELAIDE
DEEP DRAINAGE.
The installation of deep drainage progresses favor
ably and should be nearing completion. No cases of
Enteric Fever were reported during the year.
SURFACE DRAINAGE AND STREET CLEANING.
Water tables are kept fairly clean throughout the
district, but as stated last year, more could be done in
the matter of keeping those portions of the streets be
tween the tar-dressed roads and the footpaths free from
grass and manure.
SWAMP LANDS.
The practice of using swamp lands as rubbish-tips
continues. This year I again asked that refuse be not
tipped into water, with the result that the Hart Street
swamp at the side of the "tip" was pumped dry before
garbage was deposited. This allows the refuse to be
more effectively covered with earth, etc., as portions are
unable to float away from the place where thev are de
posited.
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GARBAGE.
The disposal of garbage as stated above is wrong in
principle and it is to be regretted that the Board does not
erect an up-to-date Incinerator.
BEACH.
T
sa-nitary condition of the beaches is good, but
• ^1,^ opmion that much more could be done
ing a^our"^ untidy state noticed from papers blow-
STAFF.
u ^ petition for the appointment of a
second Health Inspector. The state of boTrdSg and
Lack virdrtr Semaphore, and the c^ditfon of '
b -yards th oughout the whole City warrant.; a h use-
tp-house inspection by the Board's officers and it is
nu^se-inspect-
Chief Inspector Wilson continues to do good work
but^is severely handicapped by numerically insufficient