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SURVEYOR'S REPORT
OF WORKS EXECUTED
FROM LADY-DAY, 1877, TO LADY-DAY, 1878.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to lay before you a Statement of
some of the principal works carried out under the supervision of this
Department during the past year. The particulars of works included
in the first three months of this Report have been supplied by the
Assistant-Surveyor (Mr. John A.Tharp), as it will be remembered my
term of office commenced at Midsummer.
By far the most important branch of works carried out during the
past year has been to the sewers, as will be more clearly shewn by the
works enumerated below.
SEWERS.
A new 9 in. and 6 in. pipe drain has been laid in Grove-place, near
to the Board Schools, Wolverley-street, at the expense of the School
Board for London.
The brick barrel sewer in Cambridge-street being found on examination,
in a very defective condition, it has been demolished, and
a 12 in. pipe sewer substituted, which has been laid to fall both
ways, and connected with sewer in York-street, and connections, made
therewith from houses which were drained into the old barrel sewer.
The brick sewer at rear of houses in Cambridge-road, the centre of
which forms the boundary between this Parish and the Parish of