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1891, and the Metropolis Local Management Acts, 1855 and 1862, in
respect to certain sanitary work done by them at the Finchley Road Station of
the Metropolitan Railway Company (who were the real defendants in the case).
It was contended by the Railway Company that they were not amenable to
the Local Authority, but the Magistrate decided against them in reference to
all the various sections of the Acts of Parliament under which the summonses
were issued, and consented to state a case. Intimation was subsequently
given by the Railway Company that they were content to accept the
Magistrate's ruling, and that the case would not be proceeded with.
Whatever opinion on this question may have been held elsewhere, no other
view than that expressed in the above decision has ever been held by the
Corporation, and the various Railway Companies in the City have never
disputed the right of the Corporation to inspect their premises, and to require
them to remedy any sanitary defects.
BYE-LAWS FOR WATER-CLOSETS, &c.
On the 23rd July, 1901, I submitted for the consideration of the Sanitary
Committee draft Bye-laws with respect to water-closets, ash-pits and
receptacles for dung, &c., prepared in accordance with the 54th Section of the
City of London (Various Powers) Act, 1900, which requires the Corporation
to make and enforce Bye-laws for this purpose. The City Solicitor, the
Engineer and myself, to whom these were referred, in due course reported
thereon, and after further consideration amended draft Bye-laws were submitted
by the Committee to the Court of Common Council, who formally
adopted them on the 28th July, 1904. They were subsequently submitted
to the Local Government Board for confirmation, who allowed and sealed
them on the 27th September, 1904. A copy of these Bye-laws will be found
in Appendix E on page 157.
Although they relate primarily to water-closets, &c., and their accessories,
they are so intimately connected with the general system of house drainage
that it is desirable that the Regulations for the latter made in September,
1898, under the City of London Sewers Act, 1848, should be brought into
harmony with the more modern Bye-laws.