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accrue from the carrying out of the complete scheme of
sewerage designed for, and it may be said, forced by Act
of Parliament upon this and the other Sub-districts. I
have little to add to those remarks further than to express
my belief that, costly as the completion of this scheme has
proved to be. such a system of drainage as that now in
actual operation within the parish, cannot fail of rendering
the town aud its suburbs as healthy and salubrious as any,
either within the metropolitan area, or other part of the
country. It was shown in the report for 1867, that rather
more than 11¼ miles of new sewerage had then been completed
in this Sub-district. To this has now to be added
many thousands of feet of the same enduring work, thus
securing the very best of drainage for the hamlet of
Rioehampton and parts adjacent.*
I had, a short time since, the satisfaction of accompanying
the local authorities in their inspection of this extensive
work, and I was much pleased with the manner in which it
had been carried out.
Throughout its whole extent, the work appeared to be
thoroughly well executed, and to possess all the sanitary
appliances looked for in such undertakings.
A. further view of the Table No. VI., Appendix, will show
that the persistent efforts made during the past year to
improve the condition of the Sub-district, have resulted in
the removal of a considerable number of nuisances. Much
sanitary work of a beneficial character has likewise been
perfected during the year, and no -pains appear1o have been
spared to sustain that already completed. It is a noteworthy
circumstance that magisterial interference, in the
investigation of complaints, has been needed in one instance
only.
As in previous years, all the premises used for the keeping
of cows, and for the slaughtering of cattle, &c., were several
* The length of new sewers completed in the past year appears by the Table
No. VI., Appendix, to have been 15,246 feet. This, however, is exclusive of drains,
ific, from private houses, the length of which amounts to 2,007 feet.