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proved that inasmuch as an egg shaped Sewer
3 feet X 2 feet is too small for a man to work in,
though he can crawl through it, it would be almost
useless to go to the expense of forming air shafts
for the purpose of enabling him to work, which is
their principal intention.
One ventilating grating has been fixed in
Piccadilly, where from a peculiar combination of
circumstances men constantly wanted to pass, and
all foul gases congregated, being the highest point
in the vicinity.
Where gullies have been complained of I have
had them trapped, and a regular system of cleansing
and examination of all local Sewers that admit of
it has been practised.
At the time of constructing new Sewers it not
unfrequently happens when they are "driven" or
tunnelled, that existing drains are overlooked or
some mistake is made in connecting them; I have
found one or two cases of this kind and have therefore
been obliged to have such defects remedied;
they were not in the Sewers recently constructed
by the Vestry but those previously made.
Perhaps also in the vexed question of public
Urinals as much has been done as could be, considering
the few sites that there are available in
this Parish for the purpose; one half of the Urinal
originally fixed in the Haymarket has been reerected
in Wells Street, Jermyn Street, and has
been very useful, a small one to hold two persons