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Under the superintendence of the Committee of Works, and the
Sanitary Committee, the following works have been carried out:
SEWERS CONSTRUCTED.
King Street 510 feet run of 3-9+2-6 brick and
„ 440 „ 12 inch pipe Sewer.
Hallet's Place 120 „ 9 ,, „
Passing Alley 88 „ 9 „ „
WynyattStreet 140 ,, 18 half brick barrel Sewer.
Berkeley Court 96 ,, 9 pipe Sewer.
St. John's Lane 170 ,, 3.9-2.6 brick Sewer.
DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.
Houses drained 117
9 inch drains laid 18
6 inch 77
Cesspools destroyed by Notices served 91
Without do 80
171
Sewers cleansed 36
„ repaired 3
Gullies cleansed 300
„ repaired 16
„ trapped 16
Airshafts built 4
New Gullies 3
MAIN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.
This important question has during the past year received a solution.
Her Majesty's Government, upon the representations of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, introduced a Bill during the past Sessions, for
amending the Metropolis Local Management Act, which Bill became
law on the 2nd August, 1858.
That Act gives the Metropolitan Board the power to execute such
works for the improvement of the Main Drainage of the Metropolis as
to them shall seem proper, without being required to submit their plans
to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works for approval, as