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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—15, 17, 21 and 23, Baldock
Street; 29, 31, 33 and 35, Ridgdale Street, Woolmore Street School
House.
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:—12-30, Norris Road; 22 and 24, Dewberry Street
and 26, Wilson Street; 214, West Ferry Road; 43 and 45, St. Leonard's
Road; 285-287, St. Leonard's Road; 39 and 41, High Street, Bromley;
149-151, Manchester Road: 15, 17 and 19, Furze Street (in combination
with 13 and 15, Eastward Street).
Metropolitan Sewers and Drains Bill.*
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee had in 1913
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 was not re-introduced during
the year 1914.
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.
* This Bill was set out in extenso Annual Report, 1910, pages 216 and 217.