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the direct result of inspections carried out by the Inspectors in
the course of their daily routine duties.
Where a combined drain is legally a sewer (i.e., when no record
in the shape of a plan or application is in the possession of the
Sanitary Authority, showing that approval was given to the
drainage by a combined operation), the liability rests with the
Sanitary Authority concerned.
During 1904, the Lambeth Council has decided to support the
St. Pancras Borough Council in their endeavour to obtain an
alteration of the law so that it may be compulsory upon the
owners where premises within one curtilage are sub-divided into
premises within two or more curtilages, to provide and deposit
with the Sanitary Authority concerned, plans showing not only
the drainage of all the sub-divided premises, but also the whole
of the drainage, previous to such alterations being carried out.
Drainage of Lambeth Parish School at West Norwood.
During 1904, the work connected with the drainage of the
Norwood Schools (situated in Elder Road, West Norwood), which
was condemned by the Medical Officer of Health in a special
report, submitted to the Guardians on March 21st, 1903, has
been satisfactorily completed, involving an entire or partial
reconstruction of the drains, and a remodelling of sanitary
fittings of several of the different blocks of buildings (which
comprise what is known as the "Norwood Schools") as follows:—
(a) Entire reconstruction of drainage.
1. New Schools (and Laundry attached).
2. Probation Wards.
3. Receiving Wards.
4. Infirmary.
5. Isolation Hospital (and Laundry attached).
6. Old Infants' School.