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the length of each street or place, or portions of each street or
place, not provided with sewers, and the dimensions of the sewer or
pipe drain where either of these exist. From this Return it appears,
that on the 31st December, 1856, the Board had under its control
more than 18¾ miles of brick and pipe sewers, about 6¾ miles
of streets and places not provided with sewers; a total length
of streets and places of about 25½ miles, containing 102,381
square yards of paved carriage-way, 152,624 square yards of '
carriage-way unpaved, 138,927 square yards of paved footway,
and 25,390 square yards of footway unpaved.
Sewerage and House Drainage.
3. Although so great a length of streets and places as 6¾ miles
was found unprovided with sewers, the Board has not thought it
expedient to incur any great cost in the construction of new
sewers during the past year; nor will it probably do so during
the ensuing year, as from the low-lying level of the greater part of
the District, it is more than likely that such expenditure would
be found to have been wasted, when the new main lines of Drainage
for the Metropolis shall be laid down.
The Board has, however, paid much attention to improvements
in the Drainage of courts and small streets, among which they
would instance—
Parker Street, Elizabeth Place,
Queen Street, Ann's Place,
Tothill Court, Hugh Place,
Pool Place, Carey Place,
Bell Court, Church Court,
in all of which new 12-inch pipe sewers have been laid down.
With a view to facilitate entrance to the sewers, for flushing
and cleansing purposes, the Board has caused to be constructed
four new side entrances, viz.—
1 in Rochester Row,
1 in Francis Street,
1 in Bessborough Street,
1 in Ennismore Mews;