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to serve a very important purpose, indicating the state of the
health of your District from the commencement of your labours,
and conveying to your successors the power whereby they will be
enabled to estimate the amount of Sanitary improvement which
your former measures shall have produced.
In consequence of the reports of the analysis that have
appeared in the daily papers respecting the Water Supply to this
District, it may be expected that I should on the present occasion
offer some remarks thereon. But, inasmuch as the Sanitary
Committee have been entrusted with the investigation of the subject,
I submit that it will be desirable to await the result of such
investigation, upon which a Report in due time will be forwarded
for your consideration.
There is but one other subject upon which I shall further
venture to offer a few remarks, viz., "Sewerage and House
Drainage."
During the past year, a very large number of houses have
been inspected, and the necessary Reports made thereon by your
officers; numerous Privies have been emptied; many Bog-holes
and Cesspools have also been emptied, and filled up with rubbish;
many houses have been supplied with water to the closets and for
domestic purposes; and nuisances of almost every description have
been removed. But, in addition to these Sanitary improvements, it
is a great satisfaction to be able to report the completion of 3,339
feet of new Sewerage in the District, viz:—1,797 feet in the Parish
of Greenwich, and 1,542 in the Parish of St. Paul, Deptford;
and from the 25th of March, 1856, to the 25th March, 1857, there
have been 459 houses drained into the Sewers, viz:—406 in the
Parish of Greenwich, and 53 in the Parishes of Deptford, making
a total of 1,372 houses drained into the Sewers since the commencement
of your operations under the Metropolis Local Management
Act.
In my last Annual Report it was remarked that the Sewerage
of the upper parts of the Town of Greenwich and the District of
New Town, Deptford, could with safety be commenced without
reference to the Scheme for the Main Drainage of the Metropolis.
I venture again to urge upon your serious consideration the allimportant
necessity of continuing the Sewerage of those parts of