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Combined Drainage.
It will be remembered that last year a Conference of Vestries and District Boards was
convened by the Holborn District Board of Works to consider what action could be taken to
obtain an alteration of the law with regard to Combined Drainage, and that Messrs.
F. T. Talbot and Moss, with the Surveyor, attended as representing this Vestry, at which it
was resolved to send a deputation to the Council upon the subject.
The deputation were subsequently received, when the Main Drainage Committee
promised to give the matter full consideration, with the view of bringing in a Bill to
amend the law with reference to Combined Drainage, and on the 14th May a letter was
received from the Clerk to the Holborn District Board of Works, the Honorary
Secretary to the Conference, stating that an intimation had reached him from the Clerk to
the London County Council that the Council had adopted a recommendation of their Main
Drainage Committee to apply to Parliament for an amendment of the definition of the words
"sewer" and "drain," in the Metropolis Local Management Acts, in the way desired by
the Local Authorities, and had instructed the Parliamentary Committee to prepare a Public
Bill, and take such other steps as might be necessary for that purpose.
On 2nd July, 1895, the Vestry had before them a letter from the Honorary Secretary to
the Conference, stating that the Conference would reassemble at the Holborn Town Hall on
Thursday, the 11th July, 1895, at 2 o'clock, to consider the suggestion recently submitted
by the London County Council to the Local Authorities, and requesting that the delegates
appointed by the Vestry might be in attendance, when it was resolved that Messrs.
F. T. Talbot and R. W. Moss, together with the Clerk, attend the Conference on behalf of
the Vestry.
The suggestion referred to above is contained in the following letter from the Clerk to
the London County Council, dated 29th May, 1895:-