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live over the stables. It will be remembered that in dealing
with this question, in a former report,* referred by the Vestry
to your Committee, I recommended :—
(1) That all gullies in mews be effectually trapped ;
(2) That surface sewer gratings be abolished, and
(3) That ventilating shafts be erected in suitable
tions.
" In the said report it was stated that in 176 mews in the
parish, there is an aggregate of about 751 drain inlets, of which
some 131 appear to be properly trapped by stoneware street
gullies, leaving, approximately, 620 to be dealt with. The
Surveyor appears to be not unfavourable to the use of syphontrapped
pan-gullies in mews, and (as he states, in par. 2), your
Committee have given directions for the substitution of such
gullies for the ordinary flap-trapped brick-gully in mews,
where a regular supply of surface water is insured. I would,
therefore, beg definitely to repeat the above recommendation
(1) That all gullies in mews be pan-trapped forthwith, and I
would not less strongly urge the carrying out of the recommendations
(2) and (3) relating to the closure of surface sewer
gratings in mews and the substitution, wherever practicable, of
ventilating shafts.
"As regards the trapping of gullies generally, I venture to
submit that it is a somewhat lamentable fact that, as stated
by the Surveyor, (in his report, par. 2, page 0), only 200 are
pan (ie. syphon-trapped) gullies out of a total of 6,600 ; and I
cannot too urgently repeat the recommendation, already cited,
viz., That offensive street gullies in connection with sewers
under the control of the Vestry be efficiently trapped—in
other words, that pan-gullies be substituted, in such cases, for
the existing brick cess-pits with flap-trapped outlets. And
as it is averred that a not inconsiderable proportion of the
* " Sewer Ventilation in Mews," No. 11, 1896 (October 8th, page l29),