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Mile End, having fallen in, on examination the brickwork was found
very much decayed and past repair. The sewer has therefore been
reconstructed between the railway arch and Queen-street at a lower
level, and falling both ways passes through Pelican-passage, and is connected
with the sewer in Cambridge-road. I am pleased to report
that this work, although attended with considerable difficulty and
danger, owing to the fact that buildings had been erected immediately
over the sewer, has been very satisfactorily carried out by Mr. Finch
(contractor to the Mile End Vestry), under the joint superintendence
of the Surveyors, and at the joint expense of the respective Parishes.
A new 12 in. pipe sewer, about 450 ft. run, has been laid in Salisbury-place,
conuected with sewer in Warley-street, and the old barrel
drain has been demolished. Connections from the houses have been
formed with new sewer.
The pipe sewer in Braemar-street has been cleansed and lowered
so as to admit of houses in the centre of street being effectually
drained.
Great inconvenience having been experienced in consequence of
the inadequate depth of the pipe sewer in Arundel-street, which
discharged itself into the sewer in Selby-street, it has been found
necessary to divert the same and lower it into the sewer in Artillerystreet.
The old brick barrel sewer in Waterloo-terrace being found so
decayed as to be past repair, a new 12 in. pipe sewer has been laid in
at a lower level, and connected with sewer in Arundel-street. A manhole
was constructed at the junction of these sewers for future cleansing
purposes.
Plans having been submitted shewing a pipe sewer through the
then proposed street on the Remmington Mills' estate, to be known
as Mansford-street, negotiations were entered into with the freeholder's
surveyors, that on consideration of their constructing a brick sewer of
the dimensions 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 3 in., and at a level admitting of
its being carried under the sewer in Old Bethnal Green-road, the
Vestry were willing to contribute the sum of £200 towards the additional
cost. This work, which has been satisfactorily carried out in