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[8 Edw. 7.] METROPOLITAN SEWERS AND DRAINS.
A Btli, to amend the Metropolis Management Acts with
respect to Sewers and Drains.
Be it enacted by tbe King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:—
1. In and for the purposes of the Metropolis Management Acts, 1855
to 1899, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or any Act or Acts
amending the same, the word "drain" shall be deemed to include any
sewer or drain, whether constructed before or after the passing of this Act,
with which two or more houses, buildings, or premises are, at the date of
the parsing of this Act, or may at any time thereafter be connected or
which is used or capable of being or intended to be used for the conveyance
of the drainage of such houses, buildings, or premises directly
or indirectly to any sewer which has been approved as such by the
Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, the Metropolitan Board of Works,
or the London County Council, but shall not include any sewer so
approved as aforesaid.
2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolis Management Amendment
Act, 1908, and shall be construed as one with the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same.
The history of Combined Drainage in St. Pancras will be found set out in
a Report of the Chief Clerk of the Public Health Department in the Borough
Council's Minutes of the 18th September, 1907 (pp. 414-422), and the subsequent
proceedings to date will be found in the Report of the Chairman of
the Public Health Committee for 1907-8.
§ 8.—STORAGE AND REMOVAL OF OFFENSIVE
MATTERS. CLEANSING AND SCAVENGING.
The Removal or Reuse and Stable Refuse.—The life history of flies is being
diligently traced by several observers during the warm weather, and as far as
observations go up to the present the indication is that in order to prevent the
breeding of flies it is necessary to remove stable refuse and soiled litter twice
a week, and the same would appear to apply to some forms of house refuse. In
any case the storage of domestic refuse in closely-packed houses and especially
tenements and flats, except for short intervals, is always regarded as prejudicial
to health in'addition to being conducive to the breeding of flies.
§ 9.—NUISANCES, NOTICES, &c.
Regent's Canal Wafer.—Specimens of water, taken from various parts of the
Regent's Canal within the Borough, were sent for analysis to Sir Thomas
Stevenson. The general tenor of his reports upon these specimens of water
was that the water was sewage polluted, but that the contamination was not
such as to cause a nuisance.