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St. Nicholas, Deptford.
Hughes' Fields Prince Street
In addition to the above, extensive works were carried out in
the rear of Nos. 27 to 39, Windmill Lane, and Nos. 3 to 13,
Dennett's Road, by the Jobbing Contractor, necessitating the
presence of one of the flushing staff during the time the works
were in progress.
The flushing staff also prepared the ground to receive the
New Urinal, Clifton Hill, by pulling down old Urinal and laying
foundations and drains to new site.
FLUSHING SEWERS.
This district contains about 90 miles 1,135 feet of brick and
pipe sewers. The brick sewers are cleansed by manual labour,
the pipe sewers being cleansed by periodical flushing with water
through inlets provided on the banks of the River Thames and
Grand Surrey Canal.
Where the above means cannot be adopted, water vans are
used and dam boards provided, to obtain a sufficient head of
water to remove the deposit on the sewer inverts.
Where the deposit is of a heavy and glutinous character,
dredging has to be resorted to; about 2 miles of pipe sewers have
been dredged during the past year.
The road gullies, about 3,829 in number, have been periodically
emptied and flushed out with diluted carbolic disinfecting
liquid, and during the dry summer weather these gullies are
flushed about once in every nine days.