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" They accordingly recommend—
" That the instructions of the Vestry for the guidance
of Sanitary Inspectors, framed by the Vestry on the 18th
July, 1894, and dealing with this question, be varied to read
as follows, the words proposed to be added being printed in
italics: —
" The drain to be tested with water or smoke, and to be
trapped from the sewer, outside the house, by means of a
syphon provided with a fresh air inlet, exceptiny in those cases
where the drain appears to be sound and in working order; where
practicable and necessary, a manhole or access chamber to be
provided."
As an amendment to the proposal for the adoption of the
report, it was moved : —
" That the practice of requiring the insertion of intercepting
traps in drains be continued in all cases where the
premises, by the absence of a trap, are in such a state as to be
a nuisance, or injurious, or dangerous to health, and that the
instruction to the Sanitary Inspectors be varied in accordance
with this direction."
This amendment was carried (by 63 against 18), and
being put as a substantive motion, it was again carried,
and your Vestry resolved accordingly, thus, practically,
leaving matters as they were before Counsel was consulted.
Views of the Local Government Board.—ln connection
with the question of trapping of drains, it may not be
inopportune to mention that shortly before your Vestry
adopted the resolution set out in the last paragraph but one, I
had received from the Local Government Board a " Memorandum
as to the proceedings which are advisable in places attacked
by, or threatened by, Epidemic Disease " (and when is London
not so attacked or threatened ?), which states that—