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cause of illness and death, and investigating these yards I found
them to be mud heaps of dirt and filth the accumulation of a century,
particles of which are taken into the house continually, and the
poor little children making mud pies with this concoction of filth.
That the Public Health Authority to this district in London
should allow new houses to be built without properly asphalted yards
(where it is an impossibility to have gardens) is in my opinion
nothing short of a crime.
Every one of these houses I find was allowed to be occupied
before they were finished.
Yours truly,
Locum Tenens.
(Copy.)
Letter shewing original arrangement with reference to
Combined Drainage.
3 155, Old Kent Road, S.E.
4tli March, 1902.
Dear Sir,
Rolls Estate and Borough of Southwark.
Combined Drainage.
On 24th ulto., I wrote you in reply to your letter of 19th ulto.,
as to "combined drainage" of property of which Lord Llangattock
was not the "Owner" as the term is defined by the Act, and as to
which drainage he had no control.
To-day I am writing as to the requirements of the Sanitary
Authorities, as to shop property in the London Road the rack rents
of which are received by Lord Llangattock who, therefore, in this
case, is the "Owner'' as defined by the Act.
It appears that a house to house inspection is being made, that
notices are being left on the houses, and that it is being suggested that
the Owner in addition to the works for which he is legally responsible
shall relay the combined drains or "sewers."
So far as I have at present ascertained most of these houses are
drained by a system of combined drainage, and the responsibility for
the condition of the main portion, or "sewer," rests with the
Sanitary Authorities.