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Since the above-mentioned date, a Sewer has been constructed in
Kirkdale, Sydenham, and further Sewers are in contemplation in
Wells Road. The Sewer mentioned as having been laid within
the Parish of Camberwell, receives exclusively sewage from premises
in Lewisham, and was, therefore, necessarily constructed at
the cost of this Board. A contribution of £10 was made by Mr.
Donkin to the cost of the Sewer in Camden Row, Blackheath,
which was originally intended to have branched out of the Sewer
in the valley next the North Kent Railway, in a northerly direction
to Camden Row, and the cost estimated at £30, but this
proposition was opposed by Miss Collins, through whose property
the Sewer would have passed, and as no great difference of expense
between the two lines was anticipated, the Sewer as constructed was
substituted for the plan originally adopted. The change of plan
has, however, turned out very unfortunately, for it was necessary to
lay the Sewer at a great depth, and the soil was found to be of a
character exceedingly difficult to work, and entailing very heavy
additional expense beyond what was anticipated, the estimate being
about £56 only.

The following Sewers have, within the same time (from 1st
January, 1857, to 25th March, 1858,) been constructed by private
individuals:—