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Board of Works, Whitechapel District,
Sanitary Department.
Sir,
In connection with the year's work, which has been
tabulated in the usual way, we have to report upon the Extra
Important Works (the results of which are included in the tabulated
work mentioned), which have been carried out under our
supervision during the past year.
Nos.7,9,11,13,
15, 17, 19, 21,
27, 29, 31, & 33,
Pelham Street,
&1,2&3, Spital
Street.
These houses were in a most filthy dilapidated,
and ruinous condition, the closets were
filthy and dilapidated, and the yards were not
properly paved. Fortunately the whole of this
property belonged to one owner, which made it
somewhat easier to deal with the matter. This
property has been put into thorough good order
and condition throughout. The cost of works carried out was
about ^400.
Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,
6, 7,8,9,41,42,
43, 44 & 45,
New Castle
Street.
The drainage of these houses has been reconstructed,
these houses, having no yards, and
the closets and drains being in the cellars, special
care had to be taken; the cellars had first to
be lowered to enable persons to walk upright,
and subsequently cement and concrete floors
fully six inches thick, were provided to each cellar. The drainage
is constructed in three sections, each section having a separate
connection into public sewer and constructed with stoneware pipes,
with suitable fall, and embedded in concrete, with cement joints.
All wastes from sinks have been conveyed into earthenware
syphon gullies by means of back inlets, such gullies also taking
surface water of cellars. The closets have been re-constructed.
A small cesspool, taking waste water from sink only, was removed
from the cellar of No. 4. This property belongs to one owner.