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GULLY CLEANSING.
The cleansing of the gullies throughout the Parish have
received the necessary attention. The number of cart-loads of
slop removed from the same during the year being 3,756.
SEWER CLEANSING.
The Local Main Sewers are attended to and kept free from
deposit by the flushers in the employ of the Vestry. The
quantity of slop removed from the local sewers during the past
year has been 396 cart loads.
The casting and cleansing of the Local Main Sewer in the
Coburg road, necessitated special attention by reason of the
quantity of heavy deposit accumulated therein, resulting from
the peculiarly slack gradient of the sewer. This was executed at
nightime, with the co-operation of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, by shutting down the pen-stocks in the Main Metropolitan
Sewers. This work required great caution and vigilance, it being
tide work, in order to ensure the safety of the men employed.
A portion of the Brick Sewer in Dulwich Common road
having been reported to your Committee, by your Surveyor, to be
in a somewhat dilapidated condition, by shewing vents in the
brickwork, your Surveyor caused special examination to be made
of the work, which would appear was caused by a movement of
the subsoil, not easily accounted for, but which probably was
occasioned by influences to which clay soils are peculiarly subject.
The open joints of the brickwork were pointed up to the extent of
about 180 ft. in length, the work at the time of compiling this