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St Giles (Camberwell) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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of the new 2 feet barrel sewer in Constance Road, and also
to increase the size of the 18 inch pipe sewer proposed by
them, on their land, to 2 feet at their own cost."
Approved by the Vestry, 14th December, 1892.
Public Health
Act Order in
Council.
An Order in Council under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, Section 142, "that the 30th
of June, 1893, being a day not exceeding eighteen months
from the commencement of the said Act, shall be fixed as
the day upon which any enactment expressed in the Fourth
Schedule to the Act to be repealed, as from the coming into
operation of any By-law made for the like object, shall,
although no such By-law has been made, be repealed," was
received by your Committee.
Constance
Road
Drainage.
Your Committee again had under consideration
the question of the drainage of the
Workhouse now being erected by the Camberwell Guardians
in Constance Road, East Dulwich, together with a letter
dated the 31st December last, in which the Guardians stated
they were unable to accept the offer of the Vestry of the 14th
December, and withdrew all previous offers on their part in
the matter, and applied to the Vestry to put in a connection
from sewer in Constance Road to the drains of the New
Workhouse. Your Committee received the following
letter from t he Solicitor on this matter.—
51, Church Street,
Camberwell, S.E.
17th January, 1893.
CONSTANCE ROAD.
Dear Sir,—
I have carefully perused the Minutes of the Vestry, and
the correspondence that has taken place between the Vestry