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which have since occurred) have delayed its execution for the
present.
Subsequently a Sewer has been sanctioned from a point at the
back of the Alma Tavern to the Anerley Road near Anerley Yale,
and the Metropolitan Board have given their sanction to the construction
of so much of the main line of sewer as will be within the
Hamlet, with a temporary out-fall sewer, two feet in diameter, to
the ditch in Kent House Lane, from which the sewage must flow
into the river until the powers of the Board are extended so as to
admit of the completion of the work through the intervening part
of Beckenham parish, or the Metropolitan Board see reason to doubt
the correctness of the interpretation they have put on the powers
alreadv conferred bv the Act.

The Surveyor of the Board has collected a mass of detail information
having reference to the sewerage of the district, at the request
and for the use of the Government Referees on the Metropolis Main
Drainage Scheme, and which will be found in the Appendix to their
Report.
HOUSE DRAINAGE AND SANITARY MEASURES.
The House Drainage operations of the Board, as stated in the
previous report, were originally carried out under two general contracts—one
for the execution of the frontage drains under public
thoroughfares, and another for the drainage works on private
premises, the first at 15 per cent, under the "Blue Book Prices," the
second at the full amount of those prices; but two circumstances
have occurred which have resulted in the termination of such contracts,
and in the work being executed by workmen in the employ
of the Board, under the immediate and continuous supervision of
their Sewers Surveyor. The first change was made in June, 1857,
shortly after the drainage of the Lewisham Workhouse, when the