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system of drainage for the whole District, I wish particularly
to refer you to an observation which fell from the Proposer
of that Resolution: viz: "That after having obtained and
fixed on Plans for a proper system of drainage, the Board
would not be compelled to commence the drainage of the
whole District simultaneously, but that a certain part or parts
might be commenced at a time, and so gradually advance to
the completion of the sewage of the District."
That observation very exactly applies to some remarks
which I had occasion to make to you in an early Report, and
to which I am now more than ever desirous to direct your
attention.
There are some parts of the District in which a system of
drainage can be immediately carried out; and I am particularly
anxious, taking into consideration the severe and fatal
Epidemic which has lately visited a certain part of this District
(I am alluding more particularly to that part of the
Parish of St. Paul, Deptford, known as the New Towr; and
lying South of the Broadway and West of the Mill-lane
sewer), that the drainage of that portion of the District should
be commenced as soon as proper plans for which drainage can
be determined on, and the necessary funds obtained.
I would not again have urged this matter upon your notice
but for the severe epidemic mortality which has of late
occurred in those parts of the District above mentioned, and
the fact of your having an outfall sewer in Mill Lane, into
which those streets may be drained; an outfall sewer which,
I believe I am correct in stating, must be made available for
the drainage of that part of the town at whatever time it may
be carried out.
With these reasons and facts before me, I cannot too
strongly press upon you the necessity of at once commencing
the sewage of the greatest and worst portion of the New
Town, Deptford. Such an operation will at once hasten the
good work you have begun; such a determination will not
interfere with the future plans for the drainage of the District;
and such a decision will undoubtedly be the means of preventing
a recurrence of such fatal outbreaks of disease as