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Works, against the Crystal Palace Gas Company. The
directors of the Company denied that anything had been
done at their works to cause a nuisance; but upon being
served with notice of the Lewisham Board's intention to
apply to the Court of Chancery, the nuisance immediately
ceased, and on the hearing of a summons, issued by the
Metropolitan Board against the Company, the Magistrate
inflicted a fine upon the Crystal Palace District Gas Company
of 40s. and costs.
Ventilation of Sewers, Cesspools, and Drains.
The ventilation of sewers is of great importance, us
from the general construction of house drains, sinks, and
waste pipes, if these ventilators did not exist, sewer air
would necessarily be forced into dwelling houses; and this
would be more especially the case when unventilated houses
were warmed and the air within them thus rarefied If,
however, this is important as regards sewers, it is of equal or
greater importance as regards cesspools, and no householder
should allow an unventilated cesspool to remain upon his
premises.
The best method of ventilating house drains, and the
one which this Board has adopted and ordered to be applied
to all new houses in the district, is to have the main drains
ventilated by a pipe carried up a sufficient distance above the
roof and out of the reach of windows, and into this pipe all
waterclosets should open. This pipe should be bent at the
top, or provided with a "Banner" cowl to prevent accidental
stoppage, by birds, &c., and at the same time create draught.
1 he larger the pipe is the more useful it would be, and the
diameter should not be less than 3 or 4 inches.
It this plan were always adopted and fitted to every
building, ventilating openings to sewers would probably
become down shafts for the entrance of fresh air, and the
ventilating pipes to house drains would form up shafts for the
exit of foul air.