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The arrangements made by the Council in 1901 for the supervision
of the drainage of new buildings (as well as of old) by the
Sanitary Inspectors have continued to work satisfactorily during
1902, and to the advantage not only of the Borough, but also
of property owners and builders. All private drainage work is
carried out under one set of officers, and all unnecessary inconvenience
is thereby avoided. Such an arrangement secures administrative
efficiency, and does away with the inconvenience of
dual control, and the danger of work passed by a Surveyor's Department
having to be condemned by a Medical Officer's Department.
Economy of administration is also secured.
Combined. Drainage.
A large number of combined drainage systems have had to be
reconstructed at the cost of the Council, where such systems are,
in the eyes of the existing Law, sewers, not having received the
previous sanction and approval of the Sanitary Authority as
combined systems. The estimated cost for the year 1902 for
this work is £984 18s.*
During 1902, in the Borough, 195 houses have been redrained
throughout, or in part; whilst 264 plans (representing 465 houses)
have been received, approved, and the work (shewn thereon)
carried out under the personal supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors,
and water-tested.
10,283 tests (hydraulic or smoke) have been made by the Inspectors
during 1902.
420 Water Certificates have been issued during 1902 in accordance
with Section 48 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The two following seizures of unsound food have been made by
the Inspectors during 1902:—
(1) 790 eggs were seized at 227 Wandsworth Road, and condemned
by the Magistrate on January 14th, 1902, and
afterwards destroyed at the Council's Wharf. A satisfactory
explanation being offered as to the presence of
* This does not represent the Council's total estimated expenditure in
connection with combined drainages, but merely the expenditure arising
through the Sanitary Inspectors in the course of their daily routine works
during 1902.