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"Gill Street—No. 80.
"King John's Court—Sites of Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7; and
"Nos. 9, 11, and 13.
"South part of Limehouse Causeway.
"King John's Court
A further resolution was passed for the preparation by the
Surveyor and Medical Officer of a scheme for the improvement
of the said area and the Board subsequently approved a plan
which I prepared in accordance therewith, and I was requested
to communicate with the London County Council with regard
thereto.
A letter was received complaining of the nuisance arising in
King John's Court, and suggesting that the Board should put up
gates so as to prevent a recurrence there of, and the matter
having been considered by th Works Committee the Board
gave directions for a temporary wood to be fixed at each
end of the Court with a view to the prevention of nuisances in
the future.
SEWER VENTILATION
Complaint having been made of the nuisance caused by the
emanation of noxious effluvia from the ventilating shaft fixed by
the London County Council at the top of Ratcliff Cross Stairs,
in Narrow Street, Ratcliff, a letter was addressed to the Council
asking that in order to obviate the nuisance in question the
height of the shaft might be increased.
In April, 1894, I communicated with the Engineer of the
Council respecting an offensive smell arising from the ventilators
connected with the Main Sewer in Limehouse Causeway and
Nightingale Lane, Limehouse, and he replied that a flap was
about to be fixed to prevent the foul air passing upward from
the Low Level Sewer.