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On the 9th of September, 1891, the following report was submitted to,
and adopted by, the Vestry:—
Me. Chairman and Gentlemen.
Re Sewers.
I beg to report that since my appointment in 1886, the Vestry has
received a great number of complaints of smells arising from ventilators
of the sewers under the control of the London County Council in this
District.
Since the above.mentioned date, I do not know of a single instance
where the Council has increased the number of ventilators to the sewers,
or erected special shafts, with the view of assisting the ventilation.
A good many of the complaints of ventilators in the side streets
belonging to the Vestry, are, in my opinion, attributable to gases from
sewers belonging to the Council escaping through the nearest ventilators in
the side streets.
The only improvements made in ventilators by the County Council
have been one at the urgent request of the Vestry, when a larger
ventilator was placed in the King's Road, at the entrance to Crondace
Road, and I believe some larger ventilators have been placed in Dawes
Road.