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I have been favoured by Mr. S. W. Iron, the Surveyor to the Board,
with the following further report on the sewers in this District up to
December, 1878:—
"In Old Castle Street, Whitechapel, aud in Grey Eagle Street, Spitalfields,
the old and defective brick sewers have been broken up and pipe
sewers substituted. In Paternoster Row, Spitalfields, the old and defective
sewer was taken up and an 18-inch pipe sewer laid at a lower level. In
Church Passage, Norton Folgate, a new pipe sewer was laid, about 166 feet
in length. The defective parts of the southern end of the sewer in Burr
Street, Aldgate, have been made good, a brick invert substituted for the old
defective flat wood bottom, and the sewer for a considerable distance
rendered in cement. In Goulston Street, "Whitechapel, a length of about
230 feet of 15-inch pipe was laid; also a new 18-inch pipe sewer was laid in
West Street, Spitalfields, about 110 feet in length. An old and defective
brick drain at the rear of premises in Corbett's Court, from Grey Eagle
Street to Little Pearl Street, was broken up, and 210 feet of 18-inch pipe
sewer substituted. In Grey Eagle Street, Spitalfields, the old brick sewer
was broken up and about 180 feet of respectively 18 and 15-inch new pipe
sewer was laid. In Rupert Street, Whitechapel, a new pipe sewer, 15 inches
diameter, and about 200 feet in length was laid. About 180 feet of new
9-inch pipe was laid in Underwood Street, Mile End New Town, for an
improved outlet to the gullies at the western end of that street. About
40 feet of similar pipe was put in, in Newcastle Place (western end), for a
similar purpose.
Considerable drainage works have also been done under the superintendence
of the Surveyor to the Board, by and at the expense of private
owners in the following places:—Eastman's Court, Spitalfields Market,
Union Court, Mill Yard, Gower's Place, &c.
In addition to these works, a new sewer has been formed by the Metropolitan
Board of Works through the entire length of Lower East Smithfield,
and important alterations have been made to the Irongate sewer on
Tower Hill, and to the sewer in Nightingale Lane.
Extensive works were also carried out by the Surveyor to the Board, at
the expense of the East London Railway Company, in forming a new
sewer and breaking up the old sewer in the Whitechapel Road, from the
New Road to East Mount Street; also in constructing new sewers respectively
in East Mount Street, Raven Street, Cotton Street, and Little North Street.
Alterations have also been recently made to the sewers on Tower Hill,
&c., consequent upon the operations of the Metropolitan Railway
Company.