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orders for the work to be done forthwith under their Surveyor, and at
expense of the Board.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
FREDK. WM. ALEXANDER,
Medical Officer of Health,
8th June, 1895. Poplar and Bromley.
At a Sanitary Committee held 26th September, I asked the Committee
to consider the advisability of recommending that some person
be appointed temporarily, to extract from the drainage petitions and
minutes of the old Commissioners of Sewers (these documents being
in the keeping of the London County Council) all such matters as
relate to the Poplar District. This had been done by another
Sanitary Authority for their district. At the time of bringing the
matter before the Committee there were several plans which could
not be found at the Board's offices, waiting to be sought for among
those in the keeping of the Council. The Inspectors were unable to
find time to undertake the search, as it would have involved the
neglect of the work of their respective districts, and prevented them
from attending to the complaints for a week or more every time the
question of sewer or drain cropped up. Where a combined drain is
defective any delay such as prolonged searching for a plan is dangerous
to the health of the inhabitants. I made this suggestion as I had
read in a daily paper that a London Vestry was summoned on 13th
September, for neglecting to repair and amend a combined system of
drainage. The owner of the houses drained by the pipes, contended
that as no plans could be found, the pipes constituted a sewer in the
keeping of the Vestry.
The Committee agreed to my suggestion, and referred the matter
to the Clerk to make the necessary arrangements.
Mr. Harrold Green was appointed to carry out the work.