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NEW DRAINAGE WORK AND
SANITARY OFFICERS' SALARIES
The London County Council have power to repay to
Borough Councils from the Exchequer Contribution account,
a full moiety of the salaries of the Sanitary Inspectors,
under the terms of Section 108 (1) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891. In 1903, the question was raised
as to the repayment in connection with new drainage
works carried out under the Metropolis Local Management
Acts, the supervision of such new work not being, in the
opinion of the County Council, the duty of a Sanitary
Iuspector as prescribed by the Local Governmment Board's
Order of December 8th, 1891, relating to the appointment
and duties of sanitary inspectors. For Lambeth, per cent.
was deducted for this particular work—a deduction that has
been made yearly sincc 1903. An amendment of the Board's
Order was suggested so that there might be no possible
doubt as to the interpretation of such Order, but nothing
has been done by the Board in connection with the suggestion.
The question was again raised during 1912 and the
Council decided to request the Board to take into consideration
the question of the duties of sanitary inspectors
under the provisions of the Sanitary Officers (London)
Order, 1891, and to amend the Order so as to provide
that the supervision of all drainage works shall be one
of the prescribed duties of sanitary inspectors, and until
the Order be so amended, to authorise the payment by the
London County Council of the full moiety of the salaries
without any deduction in respect of the supervision of new
drainage works.
To this request, the Board replied stating that as Section
75 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, requires that
a new house shall have a drain constructed and provided
to the satisfaction of the Surveyor, it is open to doubt
whether the duty of supervising the construction of new