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In addition to the above, there were issued under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts
34 summonses, particulars of which are given on pages 41 and 42.
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE.
Every house in the Borough is connected with the water carriage system for the disposal of
sewage and, generally speaking, house drainage in Kensington is very satisfactory.
At the beginning of the year, the whole of the drainage work was supervised by officers in the
Department of the Borough Engineer, except that where notices had been issued under the Public
Health Acts the consequent drainage work was supervised by the Sanitary Inspectors in the Public
Health Department. In February, the Council considered whether in the interests of convenience to
the public and economy some change should be effected and as a result of their deliberations they
decided that the following scheme should be put in operation on April 1st:—
(i.) The plans of house drainage work resulting from notices issued under the Public Health
Acts shall be dealt with by the Department of the Medical Officer of Health and the
Sanitary Inspectors, without intervention by the Borough Engineer or his officers, it
being understood that the plans of all such work shall ultimately be filed with the
similar records now in the Borough Engineer's Department.
(ii.) The same course shall be followed with regard to house drainage work undertaken
voluntarily by the owners of houses except so far as it may fall within (iii.) below.
(iii.) House drainage work in connection with new buildings shall remain with the Borough
Engineer.
N.B.—The expression " new buildings " is to include the conversion of existing buildings
into self-contained flats, and any large reconstructions which the Borough
Engineer and the Medical Officer of Health may agree to be more suitable for
engineers to deal with than sanitary inspectors.
All drainage work on the sewer side of the interceptors will remain with the Borough
Engineer.