§ SIR CHARLES RUSSELLasked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, If anything is being done to mitigate the offensive smells proceeding from the drains at the West End?
COLONEL HOGGIn reply, Sir, to the Question of my hon. and gallant Friend, I can assure him that the nuisance of which he complains does not proceed in any way from the sewers under the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works, who are charged with the care of the main sewers only, and have nothing whatever to do with the local ones, or with the care of the roadways of the metropolis. I believe that inquiries are being made by the local authorities concerned into the causes of the nuisance to which he refers, and that steps are being taken to remove, if possible, the grounds of complaint.