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tion, in the Board's district, and they are now under the control
and management of the Board.
At the suggestion of the London County Council, each of
the street lamp-posts in close proximity to the fire alarms in the
Board's districts has been painted a bright red colour, and a
tablet bearing the words " Fire Alarm" has been fixed on it.
Consent was given to the Post Office Authorities to erect and
maintain a line of telegraph, to be carried by ornamental iron
poles, along Pepys Road, from Arbuthnot Road to the New Cross
Road, in connection with the New Cross Fire Alarm System.
During the year the Board erected, after obtaining permission
from the owner of the property to do so, a ventilating shaft from
the sewer in Windmill Lane, Deptford, against a house in that
street. An order was also issued for the erection of a 9-inch
ornamental steel shaft, thirty feet in height, to be fixed over or
near one of the sewers in Greenwich Marshes, and the base
fitted with an exhaust fan to be driven by water power, for the
purpose of ventilating the sewers in that locality.
The attention of the London County Council was called to a
complaint received by the Board of the nuisance arising from the
open ventilator, opposite the northern end of Florence Road,
in connection with the Council's sewer in the New Cross Road ;
and again to serious complaints received by the Board of the
nuisance arising from the Council's main sewers in the Parish of
Greenwich, especially as to that arising from the side entrances to
the Council's sewer in proximity to Nos. 134 and 167, Greenwich
Road, and in each case the Council was requested to take the
necessary steps for abating such nuisances.