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Pipe Sewers.
The cleansing of the pipe sewers has been carried out;
but on many of these sewers brick manholes are constructed
and brought up to within a few feet of the
surface, but there is no indication on the surface of their
position; they are, therefore, practically useless. When
one of these manholes is discovered the brickwork
is now carried up, and an iron manhole cover with
wooden plugs in it fixed in the roadway; great facilities
are thus obtained for examining the sewers and removing
obstructions; and in some cases a stoppage of a
pipe sewor has been released from a manhole in half-anhour,
and without opening or disturbing the roadway;
without the manhole an expense of some
pounds would probably have been incurred, besides
the delay and the inconvenience of excavating the
roadway.
On the fire hydrants being fixed the old plugs and
plug boxes were done away with, and the water for the
purpose of flushing the courts and sewers will in future
be obtained from the hydrants.
Shipton
street)
Horatio
street.
The sewers in Shipton and Horatio streets are very
old brick sewers, 2-ft. to 2-ft. 6-in. in diameter, and
the brickwork is in a very unsound condition, and
the falls are altogether inadequate; the consequence
is that they act as cesspools, and periodically the soil
which has accumulated in them has to be removed.
These sewers have been opened and cleared recently,
and a scheme is under consideration for demolishing
them and substituting pipe sewers with proper gradients
to connect with the deep outfall sewer in Hackney
road, which was constructed by the Metropolitan Board
of Works about two years since.