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DRAINAGE BYE-LAWS.
Towards the close of the year 1896, forty years after the
passing of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, the
County Council transmitted for the information of the sanitary
authorities draft bye-laws prepared under section 202 of
the said Act, requesting that observations thereon (if any),
might be made by 16th January, 1897. The Local Government
Board were requested to withhold their confirmation of
the bye-laws until the local authorities, who will be charged
with their enforcement, should have had an opportunity of
considering them and submitting representations to the Board
and Council thereon. The time was extended accordingly.
The matter received much attention from the Sanitary Committee,
and in the result numerous recommendations and
suggestions for amendment of the proposed bye-laws were
made, and embodied in a report, which, having been approved
by your Vestry, was duly forwarded to the Board and the
Council. At the end of the year 1898 the bye-laws had not
been confirmed by the Board.
INSUFFICIENCY OF SEWERS: FLOODING OF
BASEMENTS.
In times of heavy rain the Counter's-creek main sewer has
on many occasions proved unequal to the task of carrying off
the storm water, thus leading to flooding of the basements of
many houses with more or less diluted sewage. A terrible
experience of this sort befell the occupants of numerous houses
in this parish, 29th October, when 300 basements are known
to have been flooded, including 56, 40, 30, and 167, in the
Central, the North-West, the North, and the North-East sanitary
districts respectively. To what exact depth, was not ascertained,
*as it was impossible to take up flooring boards to
* The Surveyor in a report on the subject stated that the depth of the flood
water in the basements was, in St. George's-road 9 to 17 inches, in Talbot-grove
18 inches, in Elsham-road (east side) 1 to 14 inchcs, &c.