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SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Vestry Hall, Clerkenwell,
November 17 th, 1864.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. JAMES AND ST. JOHN,
CLERKENWELL.
Gentlemen,
I beg respectfully to submit the following Report
for the year ending Lady-day, 1864:—
SEWAGE AND SANITARY WORKS.
During this period 340 ft. of brick sewer, 3 feet high by 2 ft.
wide, were constructed in St. John Street.
1 sewer was repaired, and 53 cleansed.
9 new gullies were constructed, 2 gullies trapped, 12 repaired,
and 225 cleansed.
27 house-drains were laid down, comprising 10 9-inch and
17 6-inch drains; whilst 39 houses were drained.
36 cesspools were destroyed and filled up, and water-closets
substituted for them.
244 loads of soil were taken out and removed from the sewers
and gullies.
And 1 new urinal erected in Owen Street.