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contact beds, followed by filtration through sand, and further treatment
on land is not proposed.
A local enquiry had been held, and the Inspectors had been
instructed to report very fully on the questions w net her land treatment
should be dispensed with, and whether the scheme is
otherwise the best practicable.
The sewage effluent of Hertford enters the River Lea by the
Manifold ditch below the Ware Lock, about 13 miles above the
intake of the East London Water Works Company, and some
months ago, when I inspected the Manifold ditch wi.h Mr. Councillor
Bellsham, the Representative of the Boroughs of Poplar,
Stepney, and Hackney, on the Lee Conservancy, the filth in this
ditch was disgusting.
SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK, &c., AND POLICE
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Where w.c. pans and traps had been fixed without notice to the
Clerk, under clause 14 of the London County Council Bye-laws,
Section 39 (1) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Committee,
in every case brought under their notice, directed that the
builder be written to asking him to open the ground, otherwise he
would be prosecuted for infringing the Bye-law. During the year
16 cases were brought under the notice of the Committee. In seven
instances, after the ground had been opened, the drains were found
defective.