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COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Work Executed by Council. Metropolitan Sewers and Drains
Bill. Sewers and Drains Bill.
Work Executed by Council.
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:—16 to 36, Kerbey Street and 76, Grundy Street ;
209 to 219, St. Leonards Street; 70 to 78, St. Leonards Road ; 14 and 15,
Ivy Cottages ; 72 to 75, Cadogan Terrace ; 34 to 36, Burcham Street and
69, Ida Street; 1, Cuba Street ; 185 and 187, Bow Road ; 27 to 33, Burdett
Street; 173-5, Bow Road ; 162-6, Bow Road ; and 1 to 4, Iceland Road.
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.*
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee considered a
proposal of Camberwell Borough Council that a Bill be promoted at the
joint cost of the Borough Councils, by re-introduction of the Metropolitan
Sewers and Drains Bill of 1908 as a private Bill.
The Bill would provide that all means of drainage, other than a
sewer approved by the proper Authority as a sewer, shall be a drain
maintainable by the owners.
The General Purposes Committee recommended the Council to agree
to join in the promotion of the proposed Bill, and to contribute to the
cost, provided a reasonable number of Metropolitan Boroughs also join
therein.
Public Health (Sewers and Drains) Bill.
A Bill was introduced into the House of Commons to amend the
Public Health Acts with respect to sewers and drains, but this Bill does
not relate to the Metropolis.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
The Public Health and Housing Committee directed the attention
of the Works Committee to the condition of the sewer from East
India Dock Road to High Street, and serving Speedings Gardens, James
Place, Reynolds Place, etc., owing to prevalence of rats. The Works
Committee reported to the Council that the sewer was in a bad state of
repair and very shallow, the crown in places being a few inches only below
* This Bill was set out in extenso Annual Report, 1910, pages 210 and 217.