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METROPOLITAN MAIN SEWERS.
The Metropolitan Board of Works has during the
last year, re-constructed the Sewers in MeetingHouse
Lane, from the Asylum Road, to Peckham
High Street, thence along High Street to opposite
Rye Lane,—this work lias produced an improved
gradient and outfall for the local Sewers. On the
completion of these works, advantage was taken
by the Yestry to cast and cleanse the line of
Sewer in continuation of the last named, from
Rye Lane to Camberwell Green, removing the
deposit which had accumulated therein, and which
previously had to be removed from time to time
at great expense. With the improvement in the
levels above referred to, this will be unnecessary
in future.
CASTING AND CLEANSING SEWERS.
The ordinary work of casting and cleansing the
Local Sewers of this parish has been performed
by the workmen in the Vestry's employ, the
state of which sewers may be reported upon as
satisfactory, both as to their Sanitary condition
and repair; the cleansing of the Gullies also, of the