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accepted the suggestion and I wrote to the Council accordingly, hut
the request was not complied with.
On the same day (25th June), a letter from the Council was
laid before the Board to the effect that directions had been given
for a general inspection to be made of the air shafts, with a view of
devising some means of remedying the cause of the complaints, and
that meanwhile deodorants would be freely used.
On the 10th September, I reported that the County Council
had stopped up the sewer ventilator in Turner's Road, and carried
a 6in. x 6in. pipe up the front of the house No. 50, Turner's Road,
in lieu thereof; and on the 24th September, in consequence of complaints
still being made, the Council was asked to put up another
ventilating pipe in Turner's Road, opposite that already fixed. This
request was repeated on the 5th November, and on the 18th March
a letter was read from the Council, stating that two additional ventilators
had been fixed, one in Turner's Road, and the other at the
end of Burdett Road, and that it was believed that the evils complained
of would thus be remedied.
In the course of the year several letters of complaint were]
received as to the intolerable nuisance caused by the escape of
noxious gases from the ventilating grates, and copies thereof were
forwarded to the County Council; and on the 8th October, the
Medical Officer reported that the nuisance was "a serious state of
"things for the inhabitants of the locality, and one which could not
"but affect adversely their health," and it was resolved that a copy
of such report should be furnished to the Council with a request
that the subject matter thereof might receive attention.
MAINTENANCE OF DISTURNPIKED
ROADS.
In my last Annual Report I referred to this subject, and stated
that the Board had decided to inform the London County Council
that in the opinion of the Board the sum offered by the Council
towards the cost of maintenance of Main Roads in tho year 1889-00,
namely £487, was inadequate, and that the Board therefore declined
to accept it, and called upon the Council to undertake the repair
and maintenance of the roads as from the 31st March, 1890. In reply