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limitation there is no legal guide as far as I am aware as to
what makes a water closet proper and sufficient. I represented
that four houses in Hill Street were without proper and
sufficient water closets, in that the closets were situated 80 to
87 feet distance from the houses at the end of gardens without
a paved or gravelled footpath leading to the same.
On the Health Committee's order, notices were served
requiring the erection of closets contiguous to the houses.
These houses were also without a proper and sufficient water
supply to each house, there being one tap in the garden to each
two houses. The result of the notices was that the houses were
closed.
21. Flooding of Houses.—Owing to the exceptional rains of
last year, numerous complaints were received of flooding of
houses in low lying parts. Such flooding may be due to
incapacity of branch drains and sewers, or to incapacity of the
main outfall sewer, and in most cases the latter appeared to be
the principal cause.
Charlton Vale, 11-20, Trinity Street, 1-11, 15-21 and 43-53,
Reidhaven Road, Heverham Eoad, and the north side, west
end of Marmadon Road, were affected. Several of the affected
houses in Charlton Vale were closed partly on this account
(See Housing of Working Classes, paragraph 24.) Here, and
in Trinity Street, the stagnant water remaining after flooding
was pumped away by the Council's employees as a palliative
measure urgently needed; disinfectants were also supplied to
several houses. To partially abate the flooding at 1-11 Reidhaven
Road, which has frequently occurred, the manhole of
the sewer was raised in Beadle's Yard. For the rest no action
was taken, but representations were made to the L.C.C. as to
the urgent need for a relief sewer.