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APPENDIX U.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
The position of the law relating to liability for the
repair of combined drains remains unaltered, and the
vexatious anomaly due to faulty legislation still exists
of public funds being mulcted for the cost of reconstruction
of private drainage. In six instances during the
year were owners enabled to evade their responsibility
by shielding themselves behind the law and thus throw
upon the ratepayers the cost of repairing the drains of
private property.
The premises so dealt with were :—
Nos. la, 2a, 3 and 4, Artillery Street.
Nos. 8, 9 and 10, Fleet Street Hill, and 25, Weaver
Street.
Nos. 39 and 40, Alias Eoad.
Nos. 58, 60 and 62, Seabright Street.
Nos. 8 and 10, Abingdon Street.
Nos. 1 and 3, Chilton Street, and 162, Bethnal
Green Eoad.
The total number of combined drainage
systems vested in the Council at the end
of the year were 528
Number of properties involved 2901