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The law, as it at present stands, throws the responsibility
upon the Borough Council of repairing certain combined
drainages, as sewers, and as the property of the Sanitary
Authority, but a large number of combined drainages are
relaid by private owners as the result of voluntary work or
of the service of notices by Inspectors. In these latter
cases, the owners are either responsible, by virtue of the
Sanitary Authority possessing a plan or application (or
both), in connection with the combined systems of drainage,
or prefer that the combined drains should be regarded as
"drains" and not as "sewers."
House to House Inspections.
A house to house inspection of the district is a duty laid
upon Sanitary Authorities by section 1 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, and section 30 of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890. The duty is an important one,
but such work can only be carried put with a sufficiently
large Sanitary staff. Within the Borough, during 1908, a
total of 2520 house to house inspections have been made,
dealing with the following streets (whole or part):—
Marsh Ward.—
Asa Place, Burdett Chambers, Commercial Road,
Cornwall Place, Cosham Place, Coin Street, Campbell
Buildings, Cory Square, Druce Place, Elizabeth Place,
Henry Place, Howley Place, Lydia Buildings, Lower
Marsh, Lambeth Square, New Cut, Peabody Buildings,
Perry Place, Peartree Street, Prince's Buildings,
Stamford Street, Secker Street, Sapphire Place, Tower
Street, Tenison Street, Ufford Street, Waterloo Road.
Bishop's Ward.—Bishop's Terrace, Carlisle Buildings,
Clayton Buildings, Ethelred Street, High Street, Over
Place, Paris Street, St. Alban's Buildings, St. Olave's
Gardens, St. Mary's Square, Stangate Chambers,
Walcot Square, Waxwell Terrace.