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from a surface ventilating grating over the sewer in Brabazon Street,
and directed the Borough Surveyor! to substitute a ventilating shaft.
The Committee considered complaints of nuisance from an open
ventilating grating on the L.C.C. sewer embankment at Wick
Lane, and requested the London County Council to replace the
grating with a ventilating shaft.
The Public Health and Housing Committee agreed with the
Borough Surveyor that it is desirable that means of access to the
sewers should be provided other than the costly method of breaking
into them when they required attention and recommended to the
Council that 227 manholes be constructed to the Council's sewers
in the Bow district.
It will be remembered that in my last annual report it was
mentioned, 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 were without manholes and
could only be examined by breaking them open, and, consequently,
it was only when a blockage occurred that defects were discovered.
The suggestion of the Borough Surveyor as to manholes has
been largely carried out throughout the Borough.
The Royal Institute of British Architects called attention to
the by-laws of the London County Council, approved by the Local
Government Board on 20th August, 1903, relating to the plans
required to be submitted to the local sanitary authority in cases of
the provision, reconstruction or alteration of drainage systems.
It was urged the details required to be shown are unnecessary and
involve additional cost to owners of buildings, and the modification
of the by-laws is proposed.
The By-laws in question were approved by the Council before
adoption by the London County Council and the Public Health
and Housing Committee informed the Royal Institute of British