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St. Paul, Deptford.
Besson Street
North Road
Malpas Road
New Cross Road
Tyrwhitt Road
Oareboro' Road
Kenwood Avenue
Kender Place
Bestwood Street
Besson Mews
Hales Street
Boscawen Street
Pomeroy Street
Brockley Road
Bingley Place
Tanners Hill
Wickham Road
Hatcham Park Road
Achilles Street
FLUSHING SEWERS.
This district contains about 90 miles, 2,407 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; many of the pipe sewers have
been dredged during the past year.
The road gullies, about 3,870 in number, have been
periodically emptied and flushed out with diluted carbolic disinfecting
liquid, and during the dry summer weather these gullies
were flushed by men constantly employed on that work.