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77
In Bell Terrace and West End Lane the houses were of the nonbasement
type, but the level of the ground floor was in each case below
that of the adjoining street, and the trouble was primarily due to the
forecourts not being provided with a proper drain. This defect has
since been remedied.
In Fleet Road and Holtham Road no doubt the sewers became
surcharged, a state of things liable to recur in times of heavy rainfall.
The London County Council are, however, dealing with the matter, and
have decided to spend a considerable sum upon the construction of relief
sewers; contracts for about two-thirds of the proposed expenditure have,
I understand, already been entered into. The whole scheme will be
completed as early as is possible in view of the magnitude of the works
involved. It is to be hoped that the benefits of these works will extend
to Hampstead.
Effluvium Nuisances.
The Memorial of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood complaining
of the nuisance caused by the frying of fish at a shop in Broomsleigh
Street was still under consideration when my Annual Report for 1903
(page 77) was issued.
At the suggestion of the Council, the occupier of the premises
carried the flue from the frying room to above the roofs of the houses
immediately adjoining, and since this improvement has been carried
out, no further complaints have been received.

Of these, all but one, viz. that of offal burning, proved to be well
founded.
Legal proceedings had to be taken before two of the ballast fires
were extinguished, but in each of the other cases the nuisance was