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number of upright incandescent burners to be converted into
inverted burners and for the number of lighting hours to be made
practically uniform throughout the Borough. Although the streets
will be better lighted, the cost per lamp per annum will be reduced
after the first year, when the cost of the alterations has to be borne.
With reference to the suggested adoption of high-pressure gas
lighting in some of the main roads, the Council decided that, in view
of the cost, it was not advisable to take any action at present.
It has recently been arranged for a trial to be made of two-burner
inverted lamps in one of the main roads, and the question of further
improving the lighting of the public streets will continue to receive
the attention of the Council.
88. The Borough Council has for several years past been in
communication with the London County Council
with regard to the flooding which takes place in some
parts of the Borough during heavy rainstorms. A certain measure of
relief was afforded by the new sewer from Wandsworth to Battersea
recently constructed by the County Council, but on the occasion
of the severe storms in August, 1911, there was a considerable
amount of flooding in several localities. A number of complaints
were received, and as the Borough Council felt that immediate
action should be taken to provide adequate main sewers to cope with
the drainage of the district, a deputation, consisting of the Mayor
(Alderman A. D. Dawnay, J.P.), Councillors Garrett and Jackson
(Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Highways, Sewers, and
Lighting Committee), Aldermen Hewett, J.P., and Penfold, Councillors
Doland, Eaton, Nutting, and Plumridge, was appointed to
wait upon the County Council on the subject. The deputation
was received by the Main Drainage Committee of the County Council
on 26th October, 1911, when there were also in attendance deputations
from some of the districts affected. The Mayor acted as
spokesman for the Borough Council deputation, and urged the
Committee to take prompt measures for the relief of the Borough
from the liability to floodings from which it had suffered in the past.
The representations of the deputations having been considered by
the Main Drainage Committee, the County Council, on 7th November,
1911, upon their recommendation, decided to undertake the following
works, viz.:—
Flooding from
Sewers.