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(d) " That the sections of the Acts conferring on the Water Companies
the power of cutting-off the water from premises should be
repealed, etc."
[The clauses (b) and (c) related to the 14th Regulation,
which provides for the abolition of waste-pipes connected with
drains, etc.; the Committee recommending, as I had proposed,
that the Nuisance Authority should have power, by an amendment
of the Regulation, " to abolish waste-pipes, and to enforce
the Regulations having a sanitary bearing," the Companies
having allowed the 14th Regulation to remain practically a dead
letter. 1
The Committee further recommended that their Report
(e) " Together with the legal questions raised in the Beports of the
Medical Officer 0f Health, dated February 1st and March 1st,
1882, respectively, be referred to the Law and Parliamentary
Committee for consideration as to the best way of giving effect to
the recommendations contained in such Beports.
(/) " That upon receipt of a report from the Law and Parliamentary
Committee on the subject, a communication be sent to each
Vestry and District Board of Works in the Metropolis, with a
request that they would appoint three of their members to attend
a Conference upon the whole subject of Water Supply, at some
convenient date, for the purpose of taking such action in the
matter as maybe deemed expedient."
The Report of the Committee was adopted by your Vestry,
but no action was taken upon it, and the matter remains in statu
quo ante, excepting so far as to cutting-off powers, as modified
by the Act of 1887, above mentioned. Referring to the
circular letter of the Clerkenwell Vestry, it seemed to me that
their proposal was of too limited a character to necessitate
general action on the part of the Sanitary Authorities of the
Metropolis, but I am of opinion that the time has arrived for
carrying into effect the recommendations of the Works, Sanitary,
and General Purposes Committee as set out in their
Report above cited.