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day in question was the most severe that had occurred in the records
of the County Council, the actual gauge reading at the Isle of Dogs
pumping station being 117 inches of rain in 30 minutes. He stated that
it is quite impossible for any system of sewers to deal with such a downpour
of rain in that time.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Reconstruction by Council. Metropolitan Sewers and Drains
Bill—Position of the Bill.
Drainage reconstruction was carried out by the Council at the undermentioned
premises either on account of there being no plans or the plans
not being in order:—55 to 63, Devas Street; 393-5, West Ferry Road and
1a, British Street; 2a, 2, 4, and 6, Athol Street; 3 and 5, Duff Street;
7, Harrow Lane; 139-141, Duff Street; 58 to 64, Guildford Road; 11,
13, 15, 17, and 19, Colin Street; 14 to 26, Upper North Street; 85-87,
Bow Road; 89, Bow Road; 59 and 61, Bygrove Street; 1a, 3, and 9,
Naval Row; 94 and 96, St. Leonard's Road; 212 to 219, Leven Road;
56 to 62, Reeves Road; 17, Colin Street and 43 to 49, Empson Street;
30 to 33, Egleton Road.
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.
At the Conference of representatives of the City and Metropolitan
Borough Councils, held at the St. Pancras Town Hall on the 24th June,
1907, it was referred to a Committee of the Conference to prepare, for
presentation to the President of the Local Government Board, a Petition
or Draft Bill dealing with the subject of combined drainage.
The Executive Committee, comprising delegates representing
Battersea, Fulham, Greenwich, Hackney, Kensington, Lambeth, Paddington,
St. Pancras and Woolwich, met on several occasions at the Westminister
City Hall, through the kind permission of the Town Clerk, and
drafted a short Bill.
A second conference of the City and Metropolitan Borough Councils
was then held at the St. Pancras Town Hall, on the 6th December, 1907,
to receive the Committee's report and Draft Bill.
On the 31st January, 1908, Mr. W. H. Dickinson, the Member of