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Drainage
Prosecution
dismissed with
costs.
uncertainty connected with all legal work are, I venture to submit, on
the whole satisfactory.
The only cases that resulted somewhat unfortunately were those
taken under the Drainage Bye-Laws of the L.C.C.
The following special report, presented to your Committee at the
time (and on your instructions sent to the L.C.C. and members of the
Council), sufficiently explains the whole matter, and I do not think I
can with advantage add thereto.
Bye-Laws of
L.c.c. held
to be bad.
To the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
Re Legal Proceedings Against ihe Owner of 94, Cyprus Street.
With reference to the summonses issued against the owner of these premises
I beg to report as follows:—
The Committee will recollect that the defendant took up the drain, which was
found to be defective, and re-laid the same under the following conditions :—
He provided an intercepting trap with two vertical pipes under the front parlour
floor, but provided no manhole or chamber. He was told by the Officers of the
Council that the position of the interceptor was contrary to Bye-Law No. 5 of the
London County Council, and that the two vertical pipes connected with the
interceptor did not provide means of access to the drain at the end of the building
as required by Bye-Law No. 4
Bye-Law No. 5 reads :—
" Every person shall provide in every main drain or other drain of such
" building which may immediately communicate with any sewer a suitable and
" efficient intercepting trap at a point as distant as may be practicable from such
" building, and as near as may be practicable to the point at which such drain
" may be connected with the sewer."
Bye-Law No. 4 reads :—
" He shall, whenever practicable, cause adequate means of access to such
" drain to be provided at each end of such portion thereof as is beneath such
" building."
The defendant was advised to place the interceptor in a manhole or chamber
under the footway, so that, in the event of any stoppage, the obstruction in the
drain could be removed from without, and not from within the building. This
provision would also comply with Bye-Law No. 9, which reads :—
" A person shall not construct a drain of a building communicating with a
" sewer in such a manner that there shall be within such building any inlet to
" the drain except such inlet as may be necessary, from the apparatus of any
" water-closet, slop sink, or urinal."