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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]
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The following is a statement of the expenditure in Scavenging, Watering and Collection of Dust in the District during the past year. I am pleased to be able to shew that although we have carried out the Watering of the District, which has hitherto been done by Contract for £675 per season, including
| Last Year's total expenditure. | Present Year's total expenditure, including Watering and Water. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| 6,151 | 2 | 2 | 6,401 | 11 | 3 | |
| Contractor for Watering including Water | 675 | 0 | 0 | |||
| £6,826 | 2 | 2 | ||||
SEWERS' DEPARTMENT.
The work in this department has much increased, the number
of new connections to the public sewers, which have been laid by
the Board's workmen, being considerably above that of the
previous year.
The recent legal decisions as to the meaning of the words
sewer and drain, and the liability now thrown upon Vestries and
District Boards to maintain and be responsible for drains which
were laid by private owners, and which were never at the time
they were constructed intended to be called public sewers, has
already cost this Board a considerable sum of money, many connections
having been put in at the expense of the ratepayers
instead of the owners of the property.
BROADWALL BOUNDARY SEWER.
The arrangements which have been for so long settling for
abolishing, in conjunction with the Lambeth Vestry, the old
Broadwall Boundary Sewer are practically completed, and I hope
shortly to get this Board's share of the work done. Nearly every
house is now connected to the new low-level sewer in Broadwall.