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VENTILATION OF SEWERS.
Ventilation shafts continue to be erected by the Council in
suitable positions whenever the necessary consent of the owners
of the houses against which they can he placed is obtained.
Many complaints having been received respecting offensive
smells from the surface ventilators of the London County
Council's main sewer in Fulham Palace Road and Dawes Road,
the London County Council has, at my suggestion, installed
some of Reeves' sewer ventilators in that sewer, which so far
appear to have answered satisfactorily.
FLOODING OF BASEMENTS.
The heavy rains at the beginning of June resulted in an
extensive flooding of the basements in all parts of the borough.
It had been hoped that the increase of pumping power at the
London County Council's pumping station in Lot's Road would
prevent this evil from which Fulham has suffered so much, but
on this occasion it utterly failed to cope with the storm-water,
as many basements were flooded which had never previously
suffered. The matter was considered by the Public Health
Committee, who recommended that strong representation should
be made to the London County Council, pointing out the
inconvenience and damage that is caused by these floodings,
and the danger to health caused by the deposit of sewage, and
calling upon them to take such steps as will rectify the evil.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
Nine houses in Stamford Place and seven houses in
Stamford Street were represented by the Medical Officer of
Health under Part II., Section 32 of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, 1890, as being in a state so dangerous or
injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation. These
houses, which were tenanted by 67 children under 15, and 60
adults, were in a dilapidated and neglected condition, and
some were so constructed as to be practically back to back.
Summonses against the owner for closing orders were taken out