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In reply the Managing Director of the London Tilbury and
Southend Railway wrote stating that as the question was one of
some difficulty in its financial details, and the Great Eastern service
was so frequent, it had been decided to leave matters as they were.
The further consideration of the same was deferred until the receipt
of a letter from the Great Eastern Railway upon the subject.
PROPOSED NEW THOROUGHFARES.
The question of the suggested formation of a new thoroughfare
from Broad street to Brook Street, and from Broad Street to
Cranford Street has again engaged the attention of the Works
Committee, and the further consideration thereof has been deferred.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
In consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the law on this
question, it having been decided that where several houses were
drained by one drain without the consent of the Local Authority,
such drain became thereby a sewer, and repairable by such
Authority, a conference of District Boards and Vestries was held
at the Holborn Town Hall, and I attended several meetings, and in
the result a Bill was prepared and introduced into Parliament to
alter the law.
The Islington Vestry afterwards wrote urging the Board to apply
to the London County Council to support the Bill, and they were
written to accordingly.
Mr. H. S. Samuel, M.P. for the Limehouse Division was also
asked to do so.