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5.—As regards gulley-holes peculiarly offensive.
6. —To inquire into and report as to the use of
Charcoal in Ventilators or gully-grates in
other Parishes; with a particular account
of the manner in which it has been applied
and acted upon.
7. —As regards the use of Ventilating Shafts at
Uxbridge, Croydon, or other places where
they are in use; and that a detailed
Report be made as to the methods employed,
and as to the success attained.
8.—To report on all Sewers in streets that are
not deep enough to properly drain the
foundations of houses, and those streets
that have small pipes for back drainage.
These were referred to the Surveyor and myself.
My first Report, presented on July 15th, 1872, referred
chiefly to items 5, 6, and 7, viz.: (a) the causes of
offensive effluvia arising from gulley holes and street
gratings; (b) the application and operation of charcoal
in deodorizing ventilators; and (c) the uses of ventilating
shafts for the conveyance of foul gases from street
drains. I would refer any person interested in this
question to the report itself, also to a second Report presented
and read to the Vestry on the 23rd January,
1873, in which questions 1, 2, and 3 were more
especially gone into, and remedies suggested for
Sewer nuisances, founded upon an extensive personal
examination of the Sewers, both in this Parish and in
other places that I visited for the purpose of the investigation.
Every complaint of subterraneous nuisance
that I have to investigate, (and last summer the smells