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and for the service of the Crown and to Crown property occupied
under lease by private persons for private purposes.
A conference on the subject was held during. 1906 (the
Lambeth Borough Council being represented), and a resolution
passed to the effect that "it is undesirable that any lands or
buildings situate in the County of London should be exempt
from the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or
from the sanitary provisions of the Metropolis Management
Acts, or from the bye-laws made thereunder, and that a memorial
be addressed to His Majesty's Government urging them to
introduce a Bill to ensure that all lands and buildings owned by
or on behalf of the Crown or at present otherwise exempt are
brought within the provisions of the said Acts and Bye-laws."
Combined Drainage.
Many combined drainages have been reconstructed by the
Council during 1906, at a cost amounting to £1301 (estimated),
as the direct result of inspections carried out by the Inspectors
in the course of their daily routine duties. The law, as it at
present stands, throws the responsibility upon the Borough
Council of repairing certain combined drainages, asnswers, and
as the property of the Sanitary Authority, but a large number of
combined drainages are relaid by private owners as the result of
voluntary work or of the service of notices by Inspectors. In
these latter cases, the owners are either responsible, or prefer
that the combined drains should be regarded as "drains," and
not as "sewers." The Council during 1906 took part in a
Conference of Metropolitan Councils in relation to this question
of combined drainage, and communicated with the President of
the Local Government Board urging legislation to amend the
existing law.
House to House Inspections.
A house to house inspection of a district is a duty laid upon
Sanitary Authorities by section 1 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 and section 30 of the Housing of the Working Classes