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for acquiring the two houses known as Nos. 50 and 50a Douglas
Street, required for the purpose of carrying out the first mentioned
improvement are now in progress.
The Board also determined to acquire certain land in
Greenwich Marshes for the purposes of the Parish of Greenwich,
and the necessary steps are being taken for this purpose.
During the year the Board erected, after obtaining permission
from the owners of property to do so, four ventilating pipes from
the sewers against four houses in the Parish of Greenwich.
During the year the Board gave permission to the London
County Council to erect two steel ventilating columns, namely, one
on the footway on the western side of Church Street, Deptford,
in the recess by the Saw Mills, and one on the footway on the
eastern side of Erlanger Road, opposite the side entrance to No. 45,
in that Road, for the purpose of ventilating the Council's sewers in
those streets, upon condition that the open gratings in the roadways
of those streets, adjoining where such steel columns would be
erected, were effectually closed, and these works were carried
out by the Council accordingly.
The attention of the London County Council having been called
to the nuisance arising from the emanation of sewer gas from the
open sewer grating, in connection with the Council's main sewer,
in the New Cross Road, by the "Marquis of Granby" P.H., and the
Council being requested to do what was necessary for the purpose
of abating such nuisance, a communication was received from the
Council stating that having obtained permission to erect a ventilating
pipe against the wall of No. 233, New Cross Road, they