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The foregoing Sewers were executed at—
Lyndhurst Square, Lyndhurst Road, Peckham; also, in
The filling-up (and abandonment) of the old line of Sewer
crossing from George Street, Camberwell (through Barton's
Brewery), to Queen Street, has been executed;
Also, an old Brick Sewer under the Footway in the Camberwell
Road, from Wyndham Road to Avenue Road;
Also, an old Sewer at the rear of Wells Street, from Cottage
Green to Park Street.
These old and defective Sewers have been disused,
and the Drainage diverted into the new Sewers.
In addition to which Works several Blocks of
Sewers, applied for by Owners of Property on Private
Land, the Plans for which having been first
submitted to the Vestry for approval, and by them
to the Metropolitan Board of Works, have been
supervised in their execution by the Officers of the
Vestry—a duty cast upon the Local authority in
order that such Works (which eventually become
public) should be so constructed in regard to Levels
and Materials, that an uniformity of system may
be maintained in connexion with the Outlet Sewers,
which the Vestry and Metropolitan Board of W orks
have already laid down.