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that Council stated that if the owners of certain adjoining land,
the value of which would be enhanced by the improvement, would
pay the cost of constructing the proposed new road so that no
portion thereof would fall upon the ratepayers, the Committee
would recommend the County Council to consent to the second
suggestion. This Council thereupon placed itself in communication
with the owners referred to but were not able to induce them
to bear the cost of the new road, and the Parks Committee have
not therefore seen their way to take any further action in the
matter.
Flooding from
Sewers.
142.—The question of the flooding of premises from, sewers
at times of heavy rain has continued to receive the
earnest consideration of the Council. For some
years past this Council and its predecessors the late District Board
have urged the London County Council to carry out the necessary
works to relieve the main sewers in the districts specially affected
in this Borough, viz.:— Balham High Road, West Streatham,
Tooting, Summerstown, Garratt Lane, and York Yoad, Wandsworth.
Other Boroughs in South London have also suffered considerably
from similar floodings, and at a Conference of representatives
of South London Borough Councils convened by the
Southwark Borough Council and held on the 15th October last a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the County Council on the
subject. The deputation, upon which Aldermen Anderson and
Bulcraig with the Surveyor for the Western District represented
this Council, attended before a joint Meeting of the Main Drainage
and General Purposes Committees of the London County Council
in November when the Mayor of Southwark, Alderman Anderson,
and Alderman Kennard laid before the Committees details of the
floodings, pointed out the serious danger to the health of the
inhabitants of the South London Boroughs likely to arise from
the periodical flooding of their premises with sewage, and urged
upon the County Council the necessity of taking steps to deal with
the question at the earliest possible date.
143.—The County Council in January last in response to
further letters from this Council stated that the general question
of relieving the districts affected so far as it related to the provision
of adequate main sewer accommodation was engaging the