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authority, and that the outlet drain from the interceptor shall
not be flap-trapped in sewer, unless required by the local sanitary
authority.
3. That pipe ventilators up buildings, or otherwise where
possible, should always be adopted, in addition to surface
ventilation.
It will be observed that the general result of the conference has
confirmed the action of the committee and the Council in recent
years, and that the remedy for sewer emanations is to be looked for
from the maintenance of more frequent ventilating openings, both at
the street level and by means of pipes carried up houses and other
buildings.
I would suggest that, as the meeting was a very representative one,
this report be printed, and that copies be sent to each member of the
Council and to the engineers and surveyors of the district boards and
vestries in the metropolis.
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
24th March, 1898.
Alex. R. Binnie,
Chief Engineer.
SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK, &c., AND POLICE COURT
PROCEEDINGS.
Owing to the coal strike in Wales, numerous firms were unable to
obtain smokeless coal, and consequently there was more smoke than
usual emitted, but as the 23rd section of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, does not mention kind of fuel, but enacts, that "Every
furnace . . . shall be constructed so as to consume or burn the
smoke arising from such furnace," the Committee directed that proceedings
be taken in the worst cases. See page 57 Result of
legal proceedings.
During the coal strike, the Westminster Vestry wrote to the Board