The Surveyor and municipal engineer . e some experiments with ventilation by means ofshafts, and the results of his experience, which were pub-lished in Thk Survkyor, showed that the system was a greatmistake, the majority of the columns not acting at all. Hepersuaded the corporation to take down two of the columnsand put in a similar apparatus to that on the low-level sewers,and they had no further complaints, thus proving that thesystem was a success. Mr. Baker (Middlesbrough) remarked that this questionwas of much importance to those of them who lived on tidalrivers. In Middlesbrough they w
The Surveyor and municipal engineer . e some experiments with ventilation by means ofshafts, and the results of his experience, which were pub-lished in Thk Survkyor, showed that the system was a greatmistake, the majority of the columns not acting at all. Hepersuaded the corporation to take down two of the columnsand put in a similar apparatus to that on the low-level sewers,and they had no further complaints, thus proving that thesystem was a success. Mr. Baker (Middlesbrough) remarked that this questionwas of much importance to those of them who lived on tidalrivers. In Middlesbrough they were much troubled withcomplaints of smells from the sewers. He wished to knowwhether they had any galvanising works, the refuse of whichpassed into the sewers, and also whether, now they hadadopted this arrangement, they kept the grids on the man-holes closed or opened. Mr. Pickering (Nuneaton) said he noticed that it wasnecessary to utilise water from the water mains for thesewers. As a rule he thought those processes of ventilation. The Reeves Apparatius. nuisance should be compelled to purify their refuse at theirown >vorks before sending it into the sewers. In Edinburghthe 1 Ileal authority had been put to tho expense of £350,0(X)for tle intercepting sewer which had been rendered neces-sary by paper mills and other , and he couldnot see the justice of the expenditure. With regard to smellsfrom manholes, thoy sometimes had complaints of smellswhich only existed in the imagination of those wlio made thecomplaiats. He had a case of a gentleman who made com-plaints about tho manhole opposite his house, and who giimmoned the Health Committee into putting in somecharcoal trays. The charcoal trays were put in, but thochiircoal did not arrive, and on the first opportunity hemeniioned that the charcoal answered admirably, thoughthere was not an ounce of charcoal in the manhole. Mr. Greatorkx (West Bromwich) referred to a similar ex-periment which he was the first t
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