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of the said twelve houses and shops by a combined operation in the
manner and according to the falls shown upon the approved plan. A
copy of the said plan, marked 'A,' in which the scheme of the proposed
drainage is shown by red lines is annexed in this case. The following
is a copy of the application:—
Date of meeting,
Metropolis Management Acts.
Parish of St. John, Hampstead,
Date, August 13th, 1884.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead.
Alfred Hackworth, 41, Loundoun Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.,
do hereby make application for leave to lay, in accordance with the
regulations set forth on the next page, glazed stoneware pipe main
and collateral drains, as shown on the plan drawn hereon, from
twelve houses and shops situate on the east side of High Road,
Kilburn, and being the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12th premises
south from Eresby Road, seven into the brick sewer in Eresby Road
and five into sewer in High Road, belonging to Vestry and Metropolitan
Board of Works respectively.
Signature of Applicant, (Sd.) A. Hackworth.
The said house, No. 178, High Road, Kilburn, was, on or about the 14th day
of February, 1887, purchased by one Alfred John Smith from the said
A. Hackworth for valuable consideration, without notice that the
drainage system was in contravention of the approved plan, and subsequently
was assigned by the said Alfred John Smith to the Respondents
for value, without notice that the drainage system was in
contravention of the approved plan.
In the month of February, 1912, the Senior Sanitary Inspector, in pursuance
of his powers under Section 82 of the Metropolitan Management Act,
1855, inspected the said line of pipes passing under No. 178, High Road,
and stated that he found it to be in bad order and condition.
On the 7th March, 1912, the Senior Sanitary Inspector, in pursuance of his
said powers under Section 82 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855,
inspected the drains of each of the premises Nos. 180 to 200, High
Road (even numbers only). Such inspection showed that the said
drains had not been made in accordance with the directions and regulations
of the Vestry nor in accordance with the plan 'A' approved on
the 25th September, 1884, but, on the contrary, this examination revealed
serious deviations from the said plan 'A,' inasmuch as (i) in the copy
of the plan marked 'A,' as approved by the late Vestry on the 25th day
of September, 1884, the twelve houses, Nos. 178 to 200, High Road
(even numbers only), were divided for drainage purposes into two
groups. The first group consisted of five houses (Nos. 178, 180, 182, 184
and 186) to be drained into the public sewer in High Road, Kilburn,