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getting rid of the sewage matter from the open ditches and
streams which bound the rural area of this parish, for it is a
fact which cannot be concealed that wherever house property
rears its head in suburban districts, which are unprovided
with efficient sewerage, there the adjacent streams
and water courses become polluted, by the almost necessary
recourse which has to be resorted to in order to rid the
immediate vicinity of the property so erected of its drainage.
To prevent the further pollution of these rural water
courses, has been the constant care of this Vestry during
the term of its conservancy of the sewerage of the parish,
but from the reasons above stated, and from the errors of
past and exploded systems of drainage of former years, the
remedy for the evil could not be carried out without incurring
(and that with the expectation of an early and
improved system now about to be realized) an eventually
useless expenditure.
A contract for the before mentioned works has been advertised
by the Metropolitan Board of Works, and there is
reason to hope that in a short time their actual progress
will be visible in this parish.
Peckbam
Rye , Drainage, Pond, &c.
Whilst referring to this portion of the Main Drainage
Works, I think it necessary for a moment to direct your
attention to the locality of Peckham Eye. As you are
aware, through the operations of the Vestry, the whole of
the drainage from Forest Hill is now brought down in
arched sewers to a point on the Eye Common by Ear by
Cottages, from thence its natural course is through the