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5 blind manholes have been built up.
55 new manholes have been constructed.
47 new manhole frames and covers have been put in.
291 stoppages have been cleared.
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The length of soil and surface water sewers to be kept
•clean and in working order is 346 miles. These sewers are
ventilated by 73 six inch by four inch ventilating shafts and
34 large columns. All manholes and syphons are
periodically examined and cleaned.
BUILDING OPERATIONS DURING 1913.
The number of houses, and shops and houses, actually
erected during the year was 154, as against 124 for the
previous year. Buildings of other descriptions numbered 50,
as compared with 61 in 1912. The number of additions
and alterations made to existing buildings was 44, as
contrasted with 46 in 1912.
Plans were approved for 190 new buildings during
the year, as compared with 173 during 1912.
New streets and extensions of existing streets
numbered 7 (as against 7 for 1912), and their total length
was 3,029 feet, as contrasted with a total length of 3,035
feet for 1912.
1,025 feet of new 9 inch and 1,091 feet of new 12 inch
Soil Sewers, and 1,850 feet of new 9 inch, 375 feet of new
12 inch and 225 feet of new 15 inch Surface Water Sewers
were laid under the supervision of the Building Department.
The figures for the previous year were 1,920 feet of new
Soil Sewers, and 3,265 feet of new Surface Water Sewers.