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" Your Committee have had under consideration the
" question of the drainage at the Workhouse, and a Sub"
Committee was appointed who have met a Sub-Committee
" of the Public Health Committee of the Borough Council.
" together with Mr. Foot, the Chief Sanitary Inspector.
" After going very carefully into the matter your
" Committee have unanimously adopted the following recom"
mendation of such Sub-Committee and report their action
" for approval :—
" That the Public Health Committee of the Borough
" Council be asked if they would kindly instruct their
" Chief Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Foot, to have a thorough
" inspection made, together with the necesary plans, of
" the drainage at the Waterloo Road Workhouse, and to
" make a report showing what is necessary to be done,
" with an estimate of the probable expense in the event
" of the Borough Council consenting to execute the
" works for the Guardians."
After careful consideration of the request contained in this
recommendation, your Committee decided to make a report to
the Council of the (acts so far as they were then known, and to
ask for an instruction as to that portion respecting the execution
of the works by the staff of your department. The following is a
reprint from the Council's Minutes of your report, and the
decision thereon by the Council at its meeting on May 16th.
" It has recently been ascertained that the drainage
" works and sanitary arrange nents generally at the Bethnal
" Green Workhouse are in a defective condition and require
" to be thoroughly overhauled, and so far as can be ascer"
tained subsequently relaid.
"A Sub-Committee of your Committee have met a
" Sub-Committee of the Workhouse Committee on the