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of a sufficient number of up-cast shafts to the tops of buildings
in its line of route. The Battersea Bridge Road Sewer was for
many years the subject of numerous complaints for identical
reasons, but the erection of a few such ventilators removed the
nuisance, and none have since been made.
The London County Council, under whose control the low
level Main Sewer is, have erected one such ventilator at the
corner of Lockington Road with excellent results, but the whole
line of Sewer requires similar treatment. It is to be hoped
that the Council will see fit to order this to be done.
If such ventilation were thoroughly effected, there would be
no pressure upon the contents of the sewers and house drains in
the localities lying on either side of the Main Sewer, and when
it is remembered that the germs of many diseases may be
conveyed by gaseous emanations from sewers, the importance
of preventing their access to the houses of the inhabitants is
manifest.
Water The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
Supply. have announced their intention to extend a constant
supply of water to the whole of the district, and active
preparations are being made to provide the necessary fittings.
It is to be hoped that the supply will really be constant in the
ordinary acceptation of the term, as water undergoes much
contamination by storage in dirty and improperly placed or
badly cleansed cisterns.
Another advantage which may be anticipated will be the
disuse of the open reservoirs and filter beds at Nine Elms ;
the water exposed in which must undergo great contamination
by exposure to the atmosphere of a district surrounded by
factories and houses. The water supplied by the Company is
now to a great extent derived from underground sources, and
not entirely from the river Thames, as formerly; such water is
already filtered when caught, and not fouled by the drainage from
the numerous towns and houses existing on the banks of the river