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WATER.
Water Certificates.
Water certificates were authorised to be given under Section 48 (2)
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891—2, 4, 6 and 8, Morant Street ;
59 and 61, Bow Lane, Poplar ; Caretaker's House, J. Gliksten & Son, Ltd.,
Carpenter's Road, Bow ; 56, Ridgdale Street, and 1st house, Baldock
Street; Nos. 25 and 27, Ridgdale Street, Bow.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Work Executed by Council. Metropolitan Sewers and Drains
Bill. Sewers and Drains Bill.
Work Executed by Council.
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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 :—24 to 30, Eglinton Road ; 13 to 21 Lion Street:
29 to 35 Moness Street; 5 and 6 Rook Street ; 21 Grove Villas ; 16 Cuba
Street ; 12 to 14 Ivy Cottages.
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.*
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee have under
consideration a Bill to be promoted at the joint cost of the Borough
Councils, by re-introduction of a Bill on the lines of the Metropolitan
Sewers and Drains Bill of 1908.
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.
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 Borough Surveyor reported to the Works Committee that the
2 ft. brick barrel sewer in Cadogan Terrace, Bow, was giving trouble, and
an examination had revealed a falling in of the crown opposite Nos. 115
and 124, whilst a further collapse was indicated by the condition of the
length opposite Nos. 109 to 115.
*This Bill was set out in extenao Annual Report, 1910, pages 210 and 217.