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of the adjoining houses and pollute the milk and other food which
may be stored therein.
I have dealt so fully with the question in previous Annual
Reports that it will be unnecessary to do more than reiterate the
beneficial results that are apparent since this form of street
paving was introduced, and of the value of which, from the
health standpoint, I am firmly convinced.
Sewer Ventilation.
During the year 1908 13 ventilating columns were erected,
one of which was erected by the London County Council for the
purpose of ventilating the London County Council's sewer in Nine
Elms Lane. The remaining 12 were erected by the Borough
Council to ventilate their sewers situate as follows:—
Alfriston Road (2).
Albert Bridge Road (2).
Church Road
Clapham Common West Side (3).
Culmstock Road.
Jedburgh Street.
Muncaster Road.
Wakehurst Road.
During the year complaints were fairly frequent as to the
nuisance arising from sewer ventilators on the surface of the
roadway. These complaints were in every case enquired into,
and ventilating columns were erected to mitigate the nuisance
in the localities which gave cause for complaint.
During the past three years a good deal of attention has been
devoted to the subject by the Health Committee, and in that
period 52 ventilating shafts have been erected by the Council in
various parts of the Borough to ventilate the Borough Council's
sewers.
Notwithstanding these efforts of the Council to minimise the
nuisance from sewer emanations, complaints continue to come
in during the past year, and it is clear that while the steps which
have already been taken have to some extent improved the