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The Borough Surveyor very wisely pointed out to the Committee
the need for the construction of manholes to existing sewers to
enable the sewers to be properly examined and cleansed. A
number of the Council's sewers are without manholes and can only be
examined by breaking open the sewers, and, consequently, it is only
when a blockage occurs that defects can be discovered. This
suggestion of the Surveyor as to manholes, is now being largely
carried out throughout the Borough.
The owners of the premises in Paris Terrace were called upon to
drain the forecourts of their houses by a combined operation, there
being a sewer low enough in Gough Street into which they can
drain.
The Engineer of the London County Council, in response to
complaints of nuisance arising from ventilating gratings over their
sewer at Wick Lane, stated that if the Borough Council would allow
ventilating columns to be placed upon the footpath, or, better still,
along the centre of the carriageway, the Main Drainage Committee
would be recommended to advise the Council to sanction the
expense of providing and erecting such columns.
The Public Health Committee recommended the Council to
give permsision for the erection, by the London County Council,
of ventilating columns on the footway in Wick Lane, and the permission
to embody provisions respecting pattern and positions of
the columns.
Ventilating columns have been erected by the London County
Council.
Complaints had been made from time to time of serious nuisance
arising from the gratings ventilating the sewer of the London County
Council in St. Leonard's Street, and a deputation waited at the
Public Health Offices on the subject. The Engineer of the
London County Council informed the Public Health Committee