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106.
VENTILATION OF SEWERS: OFFENSIVE SMELLS
IN STREETS.
Numerous complaints were received during the summer
months of offensive smells from sewer ventilating openings
at the level of the roadway. For the most part the nuisance
was dealt with in the (at present) only possible way, viz.,
by closing the openings and erecting ventilating shafts, so
as to carry the effluvia well above dwelling houses. One of
the complaints proceeded from residents in Hurstway-street,
where there had been several cases of infectious disease. The
Sanitary Committee, after view of the locality, and ascertaining
that there were certain sewers with dead ends thereabouts,
recommended that the dead-ends of these sewers be connected
with 12-in. stoneware pipes. The sewers dealt with were, that
running through, Hurstway-street and terminating in Blechynden-street,
which was connected with the sewer running
eastward in Blechynden-street and terminating opposite
Testerton-street; and that in Testerton-street which was connected
with the sewer in Blechynden-street. Ventilating
openings at the street level were closed, shafts being erected
in Hurstway-street and Blechynden-street; and four gullies
in Hurstway-street were trapped, with the result that no
further complaints have been received, In a number of other
instances of complaint from offensive street gullies, the nuisance
was removed by the substitution for the brick gully pits of pan
gullies with syphon-trapped outlets.
This subject of offensive smells in streets, due to the