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comprises some 252 Parishes it will be seen that the cutting off of supplies
has been reduced to a very low point, and I may add that whenever a
supply is withdrawn notice is immediately sent to the Clerk and the
Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary Authority.
I might mention that during the period above referred to, no supplies
were disconnected in the Borough of Poplar.
I am,
Yours faithfully,
A. B. PILLING,
Clerk of the Board.
The Town Clerk,
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
The Public Health and Housing Committee recommended—That the
Council expressed its complete satisfaction with the assurances given and
the regard which the Metropolitan Water Board pays to the public
interest.
SEWERAGE, DRAINAGE AND SEWER
VENTILATION.
In the memorandum issued by the Local Government Board to the
Medical Officers of Health respecting their Annual Reports, it is stated
that the Local Government Board desired to obtain, through the Annual
Reports of the Medical Officers of Health, information of particular
changes of condition that occur by the action of the Local Authority, and
one of the subject matters which is required to be reported upon is the
condition of sewer and house drains.
At the instigation of the Borough Surveyor, the sewer on the north
side of Bow Road from Fairfield Road in Old Ford Road was reconstructed.
The Lewisham Borough Council suggested that Bye-law No. 5 of the
London County Council Drainage Bye-laws, made under Section 202 of
the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, should be repealed, and the
County Council inquired whether the Poplar Borough Council was of
opinion that steps should be taken in the direction suggested.
The bye-law in question is as follows : —
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