View report page

29
A copy of this report has also been sent to the Local Government
Board, in answer to a letter received from them.
I am, yours faithfully,
Geo. Grocott, Esq., GEO. CORBLE, Clerk.
Hackney Board of Works,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
Extract from report of Major Flower, Sanitary Engineer to the
Lea Conservancy Board, dated 3rd November, 1893:—
HACKNEY BOARD OF WORKS.
Complaint as to Walthamstow and Leyton;
Also similar complaints forwarded by the Local Government
Board.
These letters will be laid before you.
The samples taken and analysed by Dr. King-Warry, are dated 27th
August, 1893.
I have visited both places since that date, and fail to find any reasonable
cause of complaint.
It is quite possible that there may have been pollution on the dates set
forth. Complaint should have been made at the time.
I repeat there will be occasional pollution from these large districts
until there be a main intercepting sewer constructed to take away their
sewage; and inasmuch as the London County Council has taken over the
Hackney Marshes, I recommend this matter to their serious consideration.
Tottenham might also be connected therewith, and the sewage thereof
carried away by gravitation, and pumping be saved.
In the above letter there is an admission that the River Lea will
occasionally be polluted by the effluents from the Leyton and Walthamstow
sewage farms. There is also a suggestion from the engineer to
the Lea Conservancy Board that a main intercepting sewer should be
constructed to carry away the sewage from these districts. Such a
remedy would go a long way towards purifying the river Lea as it
passes through Hackney; but, in addition to the pollutions from the
above-named districts, the Lea receives many pollutions from its source
downwards.