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"(b) That the surveyor be requested to report to the
Committee as to any practicable action which might
be taken by the Vestry to give effect in this parish
to the third recommendation of the Conference."
At the present time no action has been taken by the
Council in regard to recommendations. (a)
The efforts of your Vestry to deal with the nuisance
which it is the object of the recommendations of the conference
to abate, originated in action taken by your Vestry
consequent upon my ninth monthly report, 1897, and it would
seem, therefore, to devolve naturally upon your Vestry to
take the lead, amongst local sanitary authorities, in giving
effectual trial to the remedies proposed by the engineers,
or, in the alternative, to Mr. Parker's system—whether to the
proposed elevated shafts cowls be affixed or not. Your
Vestry's surveyor has taken a prominent part in the discussion
of the subject—in the committee room, and amongst his
professional colleagues, and at the conference. He is evidently
in sympathy with the spirit of the recommendations of the
conference, and it would be well, therefore, to request him to
report fully as to the steps proper to be taken to test the value
of the proposed remedies, viz., by multiplying surface ventilators,
where necessary, and by the erection of shafts up
houses, or in other suitable positions.
In concluding my observations on this subject, in the
sixth monthly report (June 22nd, page 75) I observed that it
" would be wrong to treat the recommendations as academic,
and to let the subject once more lapse into silence and
oblivion." But this is precisely what is most likely to happen