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the formation of that Board in the year 1870, will be found at
page 10.
The Returning Officer's precept for the expenses of the last
triennial election was also received and amounted to £100 17s. 8d.
as compared with £113 5s. 8d. on the previous occasion.
SEWER EMANATIONS.
A circular-letter was received from the Vestry of Kensington
stating that they had under consideration the question of the
nuisance and annoyance occasioned by effluvia emanating from
sewers through gullies and ventilators in the surface of roads;
that they had brought the matter prominently before the London
County Council with the request that a conference of Surveyors
and Medical Officers of Health of the Metropolis should be convened
to discuss the subject, and asking the Board to support
the request. Subsequently a communication was received from
the Vestry of Camberwell touching the question of sewer
ventilation, and asking the Board to appoint delegates to discuss
the matter. The Board referred the matter to its Sanitary and
Sewers Committee, with power to act, and the Committee
appointed their Chairman (Mr. A. R. Layman) and Dr. Denning
delegates to attend on its behalf. Simultaneously a letter was
received from the London County Council forwarding copy of
report by Sir Alexander Binnie, its Chief Engineer, stating that
a conference of Engineers and Surveyors of the various Vestries
and District Boards of Works had been held at Spring Gardens
on the 25th February with a view to some uniform system of
ventilation of sewers being adopted, when the following resolutions
were passed, viz.:—
1. That the closing of sewer ventilators in response to
complaints increases the general evil, the diminution of
which is to be attained by the multiplication of the ventilators
at frequent regular intervals.
2. That in connection with any interceptor hereafter fixed
on a main house drain it is advisable to carry a ventilating
pipe from the sewer side of the interceptor up the
front, side, or back of the house, to the satisfaction of the
local sanitary authority, and that the outlet drains from the
interceptor shall not be flap-trapped in sewer, unless
required by the local sanitary authority.
3. The pipe ventilators up buildings, or otherwise where
possible, should always be adopted, in addition to surface
ventilation.