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CARAVANS.
Caravans and Tents are a class of dwellings for which little space exists in St.
Pancras.
WATER SUPPLY.
The New River Company supplies the whole Parish, with the exception of a
strip at the South Western angle hereafter described. The whole of this Company's
supply is on the constant service system, and during the past year street hydrants
have been fixed throughout the Northern portion of the Parish at short distances
apart.
The West Middlesex Company supply that portion of the Parish lying West of
a line drawn along Tottenham Court Road, Hampstead Road and the London and
North Western Railway to Chalk Farm Station. This district is supplied by
constant service except that portion lying west of Albany Street and north of
Gloucester Bridge. The company should be urged to supply the portion
of their district in this Parish by constant service, the district next to Chalk
Farm being densely populated.
DRAINAGE.

It would be an advantage for the guidance of householders, and facilitate the
work of your officers if St. Pancras possessed some intelligent Bye-laws referring
to drainage.
SEWERAGE.
The street catch-pits in which road refuse is intercepted from the sewers are treated
with an antiseptic preservative which prevents decomposition satisfactorily until
removed by the scavenging carts.
The vexe 1 question of the ventilation of the sewers will never be solved until
proper ventilating pipes are carried up to a point above the level of the housetops,
although in a few exceptional instances lamp-posts or columns away from houses
may be utilised for that purpose with safety.