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895.You could not have them here?
A. Yes, they are flush with the street. They are quite level; you can drive over them.
896.—Yes, that is all very well in wide streets, but in narrow streets you would find the people would stop them up.
A. You have them in the London streets. There are plenty of streets there, not so wide as the streets in Hongkong, ventilated in the same way.
897.--I understood there was an objection to them.
A.--The sewers here are ventilated direct into the street in all cases where the gully holes have not been trapped. It is only because they became a nuisance that they were trapped at all.
898.--But why, if we have such a tremendous fall here that the sewage should reach the sea in a few hours, have we such sinells?
A.--If I may be allowed to refer to that plan [the plan produced by Mr. PRICE.] I can show you some of the sewage has to travel a long way. [Points out a plan.]
899.---So you can recommend no temporary measure?
A.--I could not recommend any client to begin to ventilate his house, because if he did so he would get the accumulated gas of all his neighbourhood.
900.--So we must wait?
A.-I think the first measure likely to help us at all will be the water from Tytam, which I think will help us considerably,
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By the Chairman.
901. But you would recommend the sub-soil drainage of the three places that have been mentioned ?
A. Yes, I recommend that to be carried out at once.
By Dr. Yarr.
902.----I understood you to recommend those pipes as a temporary measure?
A. Not unless the Government will take the initiative and compel everyone to do it, and will also carry out the ventilation of the streets, otherwise, as Mr. COOPER said, it would be a most dangerous measure.
By the Chairman.
903.-You would have it done simultaneously at all houses?
A. Yes, or the first man who does it will get all the sewage gas of the neigh- bourhood. Before there were any traps all pipes were ventilators. Every pipe to a bath-room was a ventilator.
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By Dr. Manson.
904.—Do you condemn the system of ventilating by a shaft at the top of the sewers?
A. So, I think it is the best way. It is the plan adopted everywhere. It is taking
patting it out over peoples' heads.
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