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"5. Every person who shall erect a new building shall provide
in every main drain or other drain of such building which may
immediately communicate with any sewer, a suitable and efficient
intercepting trap at a point as distant as may be practicable from
such building, and as near as may be practicable to the point at
which such drain may be connected with the sewer.
"He shall, except in cases where the means of access to be
provided in compliance with the preceding bye-law shall give
adequate means of access to such trap, provide a separate manhole
or other separate means of access to such trap for the purpose of
cleansing it."
The Public Health and Housing Committee were of opinion the
provision of an intercepting trap between the drainage of any premises
and the sewer is desirable to prevent the possibilities of gases from the
sewer being conveyed into such premises, and recommended the Council
to express disapproval of the proposed repeal of the bye-law in question.
Sewer Ventilation.
The attention of the Engineer of the London County Council was
directed by the Borough Surveyor and myself to the desirability of
substituting sewer upcast ventilating shafts for the open gratings in
Fairfoot Road, ventilating the County Council's low level sewer, and also
of erecting a ventilating shaft on the old sewer in Cold Harbour. The
Engineer agreed to recommend his Committee to erect shafts and fix
closed covers in lieu of the open gratings, and the Borough Surveyor
agreed with him as to suitable positions for 6 shafts, 36 feet high and 12
inches diameter, as follows:—
Junction of Knapp Road and Fairfoot Road.
87-89, Fairfoot Road.
Rounton Road.
66-68, Bruce Road.
Junction of Franklin Street and Hancock Road.
Cold Harbour.
The Works Committee approved the positions selected,
And recommended the Council to confirm their action.
The Public Health and Housing Committee considered complaints as
to nuisance from the sewer ventilating shafts of the London County