Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1897
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Table: Table of Sewers draining Eastern part of Clapton Park, with size, gradients, and depths, &c.—continued.
Table of Sewers draining Eastern part of Clapton Park, with size, gradients, and depths, &c.—continued.
Name of Sewer.
Area drained.
Course of Sewer.
Size and Material.
Gradient.
Average depth.
remarks.
Oilpin Road.
15in. pipe
1 in 350.
7ft 2in.
There are no basements to the houses in this street, but even in dry weather some eight or nine inches of sewage backs up the pipes from the main sewer.
Carlton Road.
12in. pipe.
1 in 240
No basements, and the sewer is in fairly good condition.
MandevilleStreet.
Between Blinco Road and Gilpin Road.
12in. pipe
1 in 223.
No basements in this portion of Mandeville Street.
Ditto.
Between Millfields Road and Rush-more Road.
12in pipe.
Gradient irregular about 1 in 400.
Greatest depth 7ft Gin , least depth 3ft. 9in.
A few half basements in thiB street.
Oswald Street.(1)
Between Millfields Road and Rush-more Road, part falling into Rushmore Road.
l'iin pipe.
1 in 370.
This sewer is in two sections. The section falling into Rushmore Road sewer was relaid with cement joints to a uniform gradient in ' May, 1895. There are several basements in
Ditto.(2)
Part falling northwards into Mill-fields Road.
12in. pipe
1 in 218.
this street which are flooded in times of heavy rainfall.
Pedro Street.
Between Rush more Road and Rodwald Road.
15in. pipe.
1 in 380.
There are basements to all the houses in this portion of the street, and in times of heavy rain they are flooded.
