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and Horseferry Road: many of them with offensive privies,.
defective drainage and cesspools. Although the owners of
property in Vine Street have been at considerable expense in
endeavouring to render the drainage as effective as possible,
yet there is a continual escape of deleterious gases from the
back air of the main sewer, in consequence of the majority of
the bell-traps being either destroyed or mislaid, and this will I
fear be the usual result where such traps are had recourse to.
I would therefore urge upon the owners of property to substitute
the D for the bell-traps, and also suggest that the notices
which may require to be issued in future, should particularly
specify how desirable it is that this form of trap should be
adopted. The advantages already accruing from sanitary
inspections, are at once appreciated by the very limited number
of Complaints which are now lodged with the sanitary
Inspectors; yet the experience of my last inspection shows the
necessity of continued vigilance, even in those localities where
the drainage has been amended. Although several of the
Slaughter-houses have been visited both by myself and the
Members of the Nuisances Removal Committee, it will be
better to defer the Report until the entire number have been
examined.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful Servant,
BARNARD HOLT.
5, Parliament Street,
August, 1858.