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Hall where a large number of wet articles had been deposited. The
work of drying clothes, bedding, &c., continued until a late hour on
the Friday night, and by Saturday evening all the articles had been
dried and returned to the owners. Certain of the lower rooms were
not sufficiently dry for habitation until some days later, but all the
persons affected were able to make other arrangements. Everything
possible was done to relieve the discomfort and trouble of the people
affected.
Roth the Public Health Committee and the Works Committee
gave careful consideration to the matter and received full reports upon
the occurrence. The latter Committee expressed the view that the
question of flooding is one which must primarily depend upon the
main drainage facilities offered by the County Council's sewers, and
expressed the opinion that it might well be that, in the case of such a
phenomenal downpour as then occurred no normal and economic
system of drainage could cope with the storm. Between 4.35 p.m.
and 5.35 p.m. as much as 1.18 inches of rain fell at the Observatory
of the Hampstead Scientific Society, Hampstead Heath, and 0.40 inches
in the ten minutes from 5.10 to 5.20 p.m. This heavy rainfall was not
confined to Hampstead; severe flooding occurred in many parts of
London the sewers of which were not designed to take such abnormal
quantities of storm water. Upon their recommendation the Borough
Council resolved to make representations to the London County
Council suggesting that every practicable step be taken with a view to
avoiding in future such serious flooding.
A subsequent communication from the London County Council
referring to the system of drainage of Kilburn and other parts of the
Borough into the County Council's Ranelagh Sewer and to other
matters, stated that during such exceptional storms as occurred on
13th August, 1936, the sewers became surcharged and some flooding of
basements in low lying districts is inevitable.
The matter was under consideration at the close of the year.
Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
Under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933, the Poisons Board
prepared a list, referred to as the "Poisons List," of the substances
which are to be treated as poisons for the purposes of the Act, which