Sir Walter Greene: 52 asked the Prime Minister (1) whether, in arranging for relief works during the winter to give employment, he will consider the importance of improving the arrangements for sewage disposal in the upper reaches of the River Lee, the polluted condition of which has long been a serious menace to the- health of the people of Hackney; (2) whether any attempt has been made to call the attention...
Mr Richard Fairbairn: ...before the Ministry of Health, and we have actually been stopped in a number of our unemployment schemes by the Ministry of Health, who tell us that until we do something else in regard to sewage works, they will not allow us to go on with our unemployment schemes. If the Ministry and their officials would get off the backs of the local authorities they would be able to work out their own...
Mr Morgan Jones: 90. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether he is aware of the bad state of the drainage of sewage in connection with the State-assisted houses built by the Cowbridge Rural District Council at Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, and of the repeated complaints made by the tenants and by the local parish council for months past...
Mr Charles Trevelyan: ...not allude in his remarks, and that is Clause 55. There is considerable alarm among a good many important local authorities with regard to this Clause. A local authority is now required to render sewage harmless which flows into any stream, but the definition of stream does not now apply either to the sea or tidal waters. This Clause, in the first place, would enable the fishery authority...
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...aware that this property consists of nearly 400 acres of land, with several good houses on it, close to the town, and was equipped with railways, roads, sewers, Liverpool water, electric light, and sewage disposal works, at a cost of many thousands of pounds to the taxpayers; and if he, will state why the property was not offered for sale publicly by auction or public tender?
Mr Alfred Hill: 70. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that Earl Shilton, in Leicestershire, has no sewerage nor sewage disposal system; that quite recently it has been discovered that, in many cases, the house drains had been laid into the public road but not connected with the main drains, so causing sewage springs to burst out in the roads: and, as this is a large manufacturing village, will he...
Mr Henry Rae: ...and more difficult and where they will become still more difficult unless the whole question is dealt with. There is a stream flowing through this district which is, I will not say tainted with sewage, but absolutely polluted with sewage, which in some way or other has got into it. I should think part of it has escaped from some of the sewage schemes which have become defective owing to...
Sewage Disposal, River Lea.
Mr George Lane-Fox: ...the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act of 1845, but only in respect of railways. It does not modify it in respect to the rights which local authorities have, for instance, rights in connection with sewage works, waterworks, and other works of that kind. It deals entirely with minerals which lie under or are adjacent to railways. Under the Mining Code, as it exists, railways can prevent the...
Mr Valentine McEntee: ...of view that a penny rate brings in £2,000, and an expenditure of £200,000 is an exceedingly important thing. I ask the Solicitor-General how this is going to affect us. The effluent from the sewage farm is always under the observation of the Lea Conservancy Board. I shall be compelled to vote against the Bill from that point of view, although I agree that the public health point of view...
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: 20. asked the Under-Secretary of State for War what was the approximate cost of the sewage scheme and pumping station at the Park Hall Camp, Oswestry; whether these were included in the property sold privately by the War Office; and what was the amount realised by this private sale of Government property?
Sir Walter Greene: ..., which should, in fact, have been brought by the Middlesex County Council; and whether, seeing that under these circumstances the Lea Conservancy Board have no jurisdiction over the discharge of sewage effluent from Finchley, Hornsey, Friern Barnet, and Edmonton, and that the Hackney Borough Council have some evidence that Finchley and Edmonton have recently been causing pollution by...
...that, what hope is there of making simple facts plain to the ordinary man? I could carry this absurdity further and say, that the streets are to be owned by the men who sweep them or make them; our sewage system, by the men who construct the sewers; the gasworks by the men employed there; and even the proprietorship of the "Observer" itself would change under conditions where the...
Sewage Farm, Leicester.
Viscount Wolmer: .... Member related, namely, the waters of Loch Long, and different considerations apply to it. The permission in the present case is subject to several conditions and stipulations, one being that no sewage or other offensive material is to be deposited on the area referred to or in any part of the river or Firth of Clyde above Garroch Head, which is identical with a condition imposed by...
Mr Stanley Baldwin: ...years before the agricultural labourer had the vote, and when he first began to preach the necessity of sanitation in the crowded centres of this country, the Liberal party called it a "policy of sewage." We stand on three basic principles, as we have done for two generations past—the maintenance of the institutions of our country, the preservation and the development of our Empire, and...
Mr Herbert Morrison: ...not exist, that cost would fall upon the counties and county boroughs of the riverside. They are the appropriate bodies to bear the cost of the prevention of pollution, in addition to their local sewage farms and sewage disposal organisations, because London itself has its main drainage system, for which it has to pay, and it is only reasonable that the counties and boroughs up-river...
Colonel William Nicholson: ...to penetrate; that work is only carried on in very dirty and depressing conditions; that the vaults, which are on the floor below the basement, were recently flooded with what was thought to be sewage, with the result that large quantities of chlorine had to be used, the smell making the conditions of the staff almost unbearable; and if he will consider whether the time has arrived to put...
Mr Frederick Macquisten: ...due to the prosperity of the city, and the extension of the activities of the corporation. If that were so one would have thought the corporation would have tried to take in Clydebank. Their sewage works are there. Why do they not take in Clydebank, and give it a hand in its present troubles? Then they say they require increased housing accommodation. They have, however, plenty of room for...
Mr Herbert Williams: ...in the history of mankind, and it is the result of the public health work of our local authorities under the powers which have been conferred upon them by this House—their powers with regard to sewage disposal and dealing with nuisances, their powers either to supply water or to control those who supply water, and to ensure its adequate purity, the various powers of health inspection,...
