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REPORT, 1888-9.
sewer in Upper Brook Mews, and the failure to obtain
permission to erect a ventilating shaft therefrom in
rear of premises in Chilworth Street, it was ultimately
considered advisable to ventilate the sewer by means
of 9" stoneware pipes, from the head wall of the sewer
at the North-West end of the Mews, into a ventilating
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shaft constructed in the centre of roadway in Chilworth
Street, which work has been carried out at a cost of
£20 3s. 6d.
The late Metropolitan Board of Works have had
a Sewer Gas Destructor fixed at the West corner of
Chichester Place and Harrow Road, for the better
ventilation of the Ranelagh Sewer in that immediate
neighbourhood, thereby enabling them to remove a
large iron ventilating grating, which they had fixed
over the sewer in close proximity to houses on the
West side of Chichester Place, and from which it was
alleged bad smells emanated, and caused serious complaints
to be made to the Vestry from inhabitants of
that street.
For some years past the sewer in Hampden Street
was considered to be in a defective and insanitary
condition, and in order to remedy these defects the
Vestry passed a resolution in December last that works
of improvement should be effected. Since then the
joints of the brickwork of side walls and invert of
sewer have been repointed in cement, the mouths of
the disused house and gulley drains have been bricked