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to the final delivery to the consumer, should be in the hands of
one authority, and that the time has arrived when competing
companies, the result of private enterprise, should no longer be
left in possession of a monopoly of the primary necessity of
existence.
The information on the whole subject of the Metropolitan
Water Supply given above will enable it to be clearly understood,
and to place in a permanent form for future reference the
necessary data, and will, it is to be hoped, justify this somewhat
lengthy resume.
Bye-laws
under the
Public
Health
(London)
Act, 1891.
This Act provides that every Sanitary Authority
in the Metropolis shall make bye-laws under the
following Sections.
Sec. 16. For the prevention of nuisances.
Sec. 39. Water closets sufficiently supplied with water.
Sec. 50. The Cleansing of cisterns.
Sec. 94. Houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family.
The Vestry has made such bye-laws and they have been
approved by the Local Government Board, they are now in
force and are here set out.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891, SECTION 16.
Bye-Laws
made by the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea, in the County of
London being the Sanitary Authority for the said Parish,
For the Prevention of Nuisances.
Interpretation of Terms.
Throughout these bye-laws the expression "the Sanitary
Authority" means the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea,
in the County of London.