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10 Gullies altered and repaired, and 54 feet of 6 inch pipe to connect tbe
same with Sewers.
6 New Flushing Boxes have been fixed.
The following Sewers have been cleansed by the Contractor of the
Board, viz.:—
210 feet of 12-inch Pipe Sewer*.
90 „ 18 „ Brick „
Seventeen thousand and eighty feet of Brick Sewer*, and eighteen
thousand five hundred feet of Brick and Pipe Sewers have been flushed
by the men employed by the Board.
All the Gullies in the District have been periodically emptied, and
deodorized with chloride of zinc and water. Tho Dock at Island Row
has been deodorized with lime during the hot weather.
Four new Gulley Grates have been supplied.
The following Works have been done in connecting house and
gulley drains with new sewers where the old sewers have been discontinued,
viz.:—
30 feet of 6-inch pipe drains in Spread Eagle Court Limehouse.
46 „ „ Salmon Lane, „
14 „ „ Waterloo Street, „
100 „ „ Dalgleish Street, „
172 „ ” Belgrave Street, Ratcliff
10 „ 9-inch „ do.
The Metropolitan Board of Works have constructed a new Branch
Sewer in Narrow Street, Ratcliff, to divert the Neah's Ark Alley, Gin
Allay, and London Street Sewers' Outlets from the River Thames into
the Main Low Level Sewer.
HOUSE DRAINAGE.
54 applications have been received for permission to construct new