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Hanover Square 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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likely to be any such nuisance, and they therefore declined
to "order now any further demolition or work to be done
on the property."
The result of this case appears to us merely to show
that before a Public Authority issues a notice for
demolition it must be satisfied that the nuisance cannot
be abated by merely removing the water-closets and
sealing up the drains, or, we may add, by any other partial
improvements.
And also the following:—
We have considered the revised draft of the By-laws
made by the London County Council as to the deposit of
plans with reference to pipes, drains, and other means of
communicating with sewers, under the Metropolis Management
Acts Amendment (By-laws) Act, 1899, and are of
opinion that they meet the necessities of the case. We
would merely suggest that the words "and form" should
be omitted from line 7 of paragraph 2 of By-law 1, as it
is not necessary that the form" of every bath, water-closet,
apparatus, slop-sink, urinal, lavatory basin or apparatus
sink (not being a slop-sink), and trap in connection with
the foregoing," should be shown on the plans and sections ;
and that instead of this the detailed description required
in paragraph 3 should include the form of the appliances.
Mr. Livingstone and I also prepared at the request of the Committee of Works, the following Report on a letter received from the London County Council
| QUESTIONS. | REPLIES. |
|---|---|
| (1) The best method of removing house refuse ? | (1) By properly constructed covered vans hauled either by horse or mechanical power. |
| We may observe with regard to this question that there is little difficulty in dealing with |