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very fully considered, on the loth November, upon the basis of
certain recommendations embodied in the said report to
which reference will be made hereinafter. In connection with
the consideration of these recommendations, the Committee
deemed it expedient to obtain a report from the Surveyor
setting forth his views on the subject of the nuisance caused
by emanations from gullies and from surface sewer ventilators.
The Surveyor reported (" On Sewer Ventilation and
Sewer Smells") setting out the past action of the Vestry,
and the difficulties which had been met with in the past, and
which remain to be surmounted before any effective improvement
can be made in the present unsatisfactory method
of ventilating the sewers. By request of the Committee I
drew up a further memorandum on the subject, as follows:—
"A desire having been expressed that I should make some
observations on the subject of—
Sewer Ventilation and Sewer Smells,
dealt with in the report of the Surveyor, dated 18th October,
1897, I beg to do so as follows :—
"The Surveyor's report is ostensibly based on certain
definite recommendations made in my ninth report for the
current year, 1897, at page 108.
" The first of these recommendations was :—
That offensive street gullies in connection with
sewers under the control of the Vestry should be efficiently
trapped, and that offensive ventilating openings in connection
with sewers under the control of the Vestry should
be closed ; and, where practicable, that shafts should
be substituted for such openings, in conformity with the
provisions of section 71 of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 1855.
"Your Committee having referred this recommendation to
the Law and Parliamentary Committee for their views thereon,
have been advised (October 1st)—