MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



the Main Drainage System by which sixty million 

 tons of sewage are carried annually through about 88 

 miles of main sewers to Barking and Crossness on the 

 Thames, where works have been constructed for the 

 partial purification of the combined street and house- 

 hold sewage. The carrying capacity of these sewers 

 m 1907 was so heavily taxed that overflows took 

 place into the Thames when the rainfall exceeded one- 

 eighth of an inch. 



The Metropolitan Board of Works was finally suc- 

 ceeded by the London County Council in 1889 which 

 has jurisdiction, so far as certain sanitary and other 

 matters are concerned, over an area which is called 

 the Administrative County of London. So far as the 

 construction and cleaning of streets are concerned, the 

 various municipal authorities have preserved their 

 separate identity and authority with religious zeal. 



The Administrative County of London comprises the 



following separate municipal bodies: London County 



Council, Corporation of the City of London, 



Multiplicity 



of Highway Council of the City of Westminster, and the 

 Metropolitan Borough Councils of Battersea, 

 Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Chelsea, Depts- 

 ford, Finsbury, Fulham, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammer- 

 smith, Hempstead, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, 

 Lambeth, Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, St. Maryle- 

 bone, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Southwark, Stepney, 

 Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Woolwich. 



Within the limits of " Greater London" are included 

 the foregoing thirty corporations and many other 

 county councils and borough corporations, so that, in 

 the whole of Greater London, there are no less than 

 106 highway authorities. These are without any cen- 



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