Sewerage.
Water supply.
Hospital accommoda¬ tion.
Baths and wash-houses
Disinfection of houses and clothes.
Corporation refuse depots.
Slaughter¬ houses.
The position of the barge Eblana, by which some 300 tons of ref removed for discharge out at sea was generally condemned and the
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by the conveyance ol refuse, and the loading of the baroi therewith?^V^
commented on by some witnesses.
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' strungij' A Main Drainage system is at present in process of construction bv u-hi i t completed, all the sewage^ of the city will be intercepted, and conveyed W It outfall sewers to purification works at the Pigeon House Fort
;eyed by n This should pletely remedy the state of the River Liffey, which is liable to bVdsSTatlff water, especially m the summer months.
As to the Vartry Water Supply we are satisfied that it is of the most excp]l«# quality.
^entt^ The hospital accommodation for infectious cases in Dublin is larger in proportion fat the population than is the case in any English city.
Among the hospitals, Cork-streS Hospital and the HardwickeHospitai are reserved for cases of fever and other infecticst diseases (including pneumonia), and it has been only at very rare intervals that aw difficulty has arisen in obtaining admission for such cases.
* There are 266 beds in Cork-street Fever Hospital, and there are 26 in the Convalesced Home at Benevin attached thereto.
This Home is, however, used only for scarlatina
This hospital usedto take in patients from the North and South Dublin Unions tte Guardians contributing a fixed charge for each case of 2s.
per head per day.
There* no capitation fee from the Corporation, but there has been an annual grant.
U* fortunately the effect of the recent legislation by the Local Government Act, 1898, Lai been to make any payments by the Guardians to this hospital for cases from tliutf Unions idtra vires, and the Guardians have been obliged to discontinue them.
Tk consequence was, that during the recent epidemic of Measles, many cases from the citf such as would previously have been treated at Cork-street Hospital, had to be deal with in the homes of the patients to their detriment and that of the other resident* h their houses.
This state of things has, we think, had a decided effect in increasing the death rate in 1899.
One instance was mentioned in which thirteen cases of Measles had to be treat J in one tenement house because there was no hospital accommodation for them at Cork, street or elsewhere.
Tho present provision made for conveying cases to hospital appears to be satisfactory There is no Consumption Hospital in Dublin, although some cases in the advance!
stages of this disease are admitted into the Hoyal Hospital for Incurables, at Donr#J brook, and the Hospice for the Dying, at Harold's-cross.
There is no separate hospif* for Small-pox in Dublin, nor has any Convalescent Home for infectious cases be* established under section 155 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.
The Corporation have constructed two swimming baths, a number of reclining bath% and a large wash-house, with complete arrangements for washing and drying clothe!
Some witnesses consider that the erection of more public baths, or at any rate of mogK wash-houses, would conduce to an improvement of the public health, and we agree wi* them.
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The Corporation arrangement for this work appears to be very efficient and satiP factory.
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There are two such depots, one at Marrowbone-lane, the other at Stanley-street.
Complaints have been made as to these, and evidence was given as to the offensr condition of the former.
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There is a general feeling that private slaughter-houses should not be peiw within the city.
, , A+i,pr« »* There are now fifty-six in Dublin, and some of them are well con ducted,.others
^ not well kept.
Sir Charles Cameron, however, expressed hl^sel±^%n°IatP effeeti# properly conducted private slaughter-houses in the city; but he^ addea
_ & ^ supervision of a considerable number of private slaughter-houses is imposs, ^ with which we agree.
The Corporation acquired powers under taeir loem £ ^ ^ which enabled them to buy up the unsanitary slaughter-houses, and as i y .
proceed to put these powers in force, the Magistrates f*^* uhJUte ceedings were taken under the general provisions of the Puohe hLeait • ^totf Evidence was given on behalf of the Victuallers' Association that in
^ fea m houses were well conducted, and objections were made by them to
^^ ^ butchers of the Corporation Abattoir on the north side of the city, attach any weight to these objections.
