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Old Sewers, Sardinia Place, &c.
The Metropolitan Electric Supply Company (Limited),
recently erected a new electric light station in Sardinia
Place, the drains from which were connected with the
public sewer in Sardinia Place. Shortly after the Company
commenced operations they discharged considerable quantities
of hot water into the sewer, giving rise to complaints
from the inhabitants of the adjacent premises, of steam and
smell finding their way from the sewers into their properties,
and upon investigating the matter, it was found that a
number of old sewers and drains ran beneath the private
property situated between the north end of Sardinia Place
and the south side of Great Queen Street, these drains
being in a most defective condition. The matter was
referred to your Sanitary Committee for consideration and
report, and, upon its recommendation, the Board ordered
that these old sewers should be filled up, new stoneware
pipes being laid where necessary to take any sewage that
might be found to enter them. These works were performed
by the Board's workmen, under my direction—they
were of an expensive and difficult character, a considerable
length of the old sewers running as they did beneath the
walls of premises, the said walls being actually built upon
them. The matter was reported on at length by me on the
3rd June, 1890, and the total cost of the work, which
included certain works in connection with the drainage of
the several properties beneath which the old sewers ran,
was £139 l1s. 1d.
Sewers, Charing Cross Road.
In the Autumn of 1889, complaint was made by the inhabitants
of premises abutting upon Charing Cross Road