Following Mayor Sharpe’s return from eastern Canada and receipt of Jordan’s report,
Council passed By-law 4143, which required connections for all buildings on streets with sewer and water mains. Council
also adopted a motion to allow connections to be made to those who could not afford them immediately by spreading the
cost over five years.
As a result of these measures, the incidence of typhoid fever dropped from a high in
1905 of 1,606 cases to an annual average of about 360. The last box closet was removed in 1909.
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