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Withdrawal of Water from Dwelling Houses by
Water Board.
From July 9th to July 13th, 1912, the three houses, 28,
30, 32 Old Paradise Street, were without a proper and sufficient
water supply, the Water Board having withdrawn
the water therefrom for an infringement of the Board's
Regulations. The houses are tenemented—a total of 77
persons—and the action of the Water Board was condemned
by the Borough Council as being a danger to health of such
persons besides being a nuisance and inconvenience. Temporarily,
a stand-pipe was provided by the Board at the
suggestion of the Borough Council officials, to be used
occasionally, i.e., once or twice a day for supplying water,
as required, whilst the turn-cock was present—an unsatisfactory
arrangement.
Lambeth Infirmary Drainage.
During 1912, an account of a stoppage in the drainage
near to the cook's larder, due to the entrance of roots of
trees into the pipes, the system was opened up and found
to be defective and practically without fall not only at the
point where the stoppage had taken place, but also in the
immediate neighbourhood.
The Guardians were written to, asking what action it
was proposed to take as to the drainage of the Infirmary as
a whole and at their meeting, held July 10th, 1912, it was
decided by the Guardians to instruct their Surveyors to
execute a plan of the present drainage, with a view to
a complete scheme ol drainage reconstruction at an early
date. The stoppage was dealt with by the laying of a
new drain outside the provision store, through the cook's
larder into the kitchen yard to a manhole so placed as to
form part of a new drainage system.