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In the adjoining premises the water rose to a height of
6 inches. On one occasion only during the last fifteen years
had the same annoyance been experienced. I came to the conclusion
thai these floodings were owing to the middle level
sewer in the Uxbridge Road, not being of sufficient capacity
to carry off the sewage and the storm-water, whenever very
heavy rains occur. At such times the sewer in the Queen's
Road, which accommodates Westbourne Grove, speedily
becomes full, causing the contents of the house-drains
discharging into it to be forced backwards, through the traps,
into the areas, and thence into the basements of the houses.
The sewer in the Queen's Road, was found on inspection, to
be in good condition. On my recommendation the attention
of the Metropolitan Board of Works was called to the
insufficiency of the relief afforded by the middle-level sewer
to the drainage of the Parish.
Meteorology.
Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., reports to the RegistrarGeneral,
that the mean reading of the barometer was below
the average during July, that it showed an excess during
August, and that it corresponded with the average in
September. The weather in July was dull, unsettled, and
wet in all parts of the country. In some places rain fell on
twenty-six or twenty-seven days in the month. The fall of
rain exceeded the average at all places, and by as much as
3 or 4 inches in some localities. Thunder-storms were of
frequent occurrence. At the beginning of August the
weather was cold with frequent rains. After the 8th to the
end of the month the weather was genial and fine. During
the first week of September the weather was fine; during the
next fortnight the fall of rain was very heavy, causing
destructive floods in many places. During the last week of
the month, the weather was fine and warm. In London the
rainfall in the thirteen weeks ending 2nd October, 1880,
was 7.99 inches.
Vestry Hall, Paddington,
December, 1880.