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A letter was received from a resident in Aston Street,
Limehouse, complaining of the nuisance caused by a ventilator
in the middle of that thoroughfare opposite his house As a
temporary measure I had the ventilator stopped with wood, and,
the Work Committee having considered the matter, directions
were given for a ventilating shaft to be carried up the front of
the house in lieu of the open ventilator in the road, the consent
of the owner having been obtained.
Mr. Lehmon, of Salmon Lane, Limehouse, made some
alterations in his apparatus for preventing the emanation of
effluvia from sewers, to which reference was made in my last
Annual Report, and after a further trial of the same the Board
did not consider the apparatus efficacious in action and therefore
decided not to adopt it
LONDON STREETS AND BUILDINGS BILL.
This Bill, and the course taken by the Hoard with regard
thereto,was referred to in my last report. Subsequent to the
proceedings therein reported a letter was received from the
Vestry of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, to the following effect,
and the Board expressed their agreement therewith:-
(a) "That, looking to the repeated demand which has been
"made on behalf of the Local Authorities that they should be
"vested with the administration of the Buildings Acts in their
"respective districts, it is most desirable that legislation, as
"regards the Local Government of the Metropolis, defining and
"enlarging the functions of the Local Authorities,should precede
*any legislation for consolidating and amending the Metropolitan
Building Acts.
(b) "That a Bill, altering and largely extending the public
"law, and repealing a number of public statutes, should be a
" public and not a private measure."