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SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Vestry Hall, Clerkenwei.l,
July 27th, 1865.
TO THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES AND
ST. JOHN, CLERKENWELL.
Gentlemen,
I beg respectfully to submit the following Report
for the year ending Lady-day, 1865:—
SEWAGE AND SANITARY WORKS.
During this period 118 ft. of 9-inch pipe sewer was laid down in
Queen Street.
3 sewers were repaired, and 67 cleansed.
5 new gullies were constructed, 4 trapped, 19 repaired, and 288
cleansed.
32 house-drains were laid down, comprising 1 15-inch, 1 12-inch,
13 9-inch, and 17 6-inch drains ; whilst 41 houses have been drained,
and 2 house-drains have been trapped.
30 Cesspools have been destroyed and filled up, and water-closets
substituted for them.
152 loads of soil were taken out and removed from the sewers
and gullies.
1 new water post was fixed in Upper Charles Street.
And 1 new urinal erected in Arlington Street.