View report page

7
lower level falling into the Hackney Road Sewer has been
substituted. The work being carried out by Mr. Porter,
at a cost of £57 19s. 1d.
In the summer of last year the Drains of nearly all the
houses in Seabright Street were stopped up. On opening
the Sewer, it was found to be an old Brick Barrel Sewer,
3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet in diameter, and quite full of
sewage deposit. The work of clearing out was commenced,
and after 130 loads of deposit had been carted away, had
to be abandoned in consequence of illness of the occupants
of the houses, alleged to be caused by the smells. Only
about one-half of the deposit has been removed, so that
this Sewer is in reality only an immense cesspool, holding
more than 200 cubic yards of deposit.
It has now been determined to break it up, and to
substitute a 15-inch Pipe at a lower-level, and with proper
fall, to drain direct into the Main Sewer in Hackney Eoad.
On August 20th, one of the hottest days of last summer,
a fishmonger's man was seen to put two pails of fish offal
into a gully in Cambridge Road, and on remonstrating
with his employer, it seemed he was acting under his
instructions. They were both summoned to Worship
Street Police Court, the master was fined £5 and costs,
and the man £2 and costs. These amounts were paid to
the credit of the Vestry.
Connections have been made with the Sewers for the
purpose of draining 96 houses and buildings, the work
being carried out by the Vestry workmen, at the cost of
the applicants.
Seabright
Street,
Hackney
Road.
Nuisance.
House
Drainage