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A conference of Borough Councils was held at Camberwell
Town Hall, on July 13th, 1903, and, as a result, the Local
Government Board was asked to amend its Order of the 8th
December, 1891, making the supervision of the original construction
of drainage works, one of the duties of a Sanitary
Inspector for which half the salary can be claimed from the
London County Council, and that, pending such amendment, the
Board should authorize the payment, by the London County
Council, of one moiety of the salaries for such work. The
Board, however, replied "That they could not hold out any hope
that any immediate alteration would be made in the Order" and,
consequently, a further meeting of the Conference was held on
October 20th, 1903, at which it was resolved to leave to each
Borough Council the decision as to what proportion of the
salary of each of the Sanitary Inspectors (engaged in supervising
the drainage of new buildings) should be deducted from the
moiety payable by the London County Council. The Lambeth
Borough Council decided to offer the London County Council a
deduction of per cent. as representing the proportion of salary
of each Inspector that would cover the work in connection with
drainage of new buildings; and to this offer, the London County
Council has agreed. The matter is, therefore, temporarily settled,
though it is to be regretted that the London County Council
raised the question, seeing how important a duty of a Sanitary
Inspector is the supervision of the drains of new buildings.
In Lambeth Borough, the Sanitary Inspectors supervise the
drainage of both new and old buildings, to the advantage not
only of property owners and builders but also of the Ratepayers
of the Borough generally.
Combined Drainage.
A large number of combined drains, which have been proved
to be legally Sewers, have been relaid by the Council at the cost
of the Ratepayer. This is a responsibility that the Borough
Council cannot legally, nor morally, get out of in the existing