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the Council as hereinbefore stated in April, 1912, shows that the drainage
of Nos. 188 and 190, High Road, have been disconnected from the line of
pipes passing under No. 178, High Road, and have been added to the
line of pipes passing into Eresby Road, that the four gulleys have been
removed and that the whole of the drainage system to the workshop
has also been removed and that the drainage of the said premises
Nos. 178 to 200, High Road, is now in accordance with the plan approved
by the Vestry on 25th September, 1884.
On the 10th April, 1912, a notice under Section 85 of the said Act was served
on the Respondents requiring them within 14 days 'to take up the
'combined drain from the sewer to the manhole in the passage at the
'rear, remove all foul and polluted earth from under and around the
'same and reinstate it in iron pipes of internal diameter of not less
' than 5 ins.'
The steps taken in alleged exercise of the powers given by Sections 82, 83
and 85 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, were all duly authorised
by the Council, and the Notices prescribed by the said Sections were
duly served upon the parties as hereinbefore stated.
The Appellant contended before me that the order of the Vestry was an order
for the drainage of the group or block of twelve houses and shops by a
combined operation, and that inasmuch as the Council after the discovery
by the Appellant as aforesaid that the drains had not been made
according to the directions and regulations of the Vestry, took the steps
prescribed by Section 83 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, to
cause such drains to be altered in conformity with the said directions
and regulations the said line of pipes constituted a drain repairable by
the Respondents."
House Drainage,
The issue of the Report of the Departmental Committee appointed
by the Local Government Board to enquire into the use of intercepting
traps in house drains is by far the most important contribution upon the
question of the arrangement and construction of drains which has been
made for many years.
The inquiry was instituted as the result of an application by the
Willesden Council to the Local Government Board for sanction to adopt
a series of By-laws with regard to drains, in which the requirement to
provide an intercepting trap was omitted. The Board refused their
sanction, but appointed a Committee consisting of three gentlemen
representing the Architectural, Medical and Engineering professions, to
investigate and report upon the subject, and the fact that the Report
was not issued until three years after the appointment of the Committee