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139
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE re SEWER
VENTILATION,
Adopted at Council Meeting, 15th February, 1906.
30th January, 1906.
Your Committee beg to report as follows : —
On 22nd June, 1905, a report was submitted to the Council
by the Works Committee:
Stating—
(a) That they have considered the memorial, dated 20th May,
from residents in Hillfield Road, alleging that the sewer
gratings in that road were a danger to health, a public
nuisance, and a contravention of section 19 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, and demanding that steps be at once
taken to abate such alleged nuisance by forthwith sealing
the road openings, and by adopting a proper and sanitary
method of sewer ventilation, in lieu of the existing
arrangements.
(b) That they have also considered a letter, dated 10th June,
from the London County Council, forwarding copy of a
similar memorial addressed to them on the subject.
(c) That on the 26th November, 1903, the Committee
mended the Council to substitute for the existing sewer
ventilating gratings in that vicinity, gratings of a larger
size, but the recommendation was deferred by the Council
on 17th March, 1904.
(d) That since that date several up-cast shafts have been
erected in the neighbourhood in order to assist in the
ventilation of the sewers.
(e) That they are of opinion that the best means of dealing
with the question would be to carry out the abovementioned
works; and therefore