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plaints of the suffering inhabitants, and the consequent
Reports thereon by your Surveyor, these Reports, after
receiving the Vestry's consideration, were transmitted to
the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Further—On a recent occurrence of fioodings, it was
again the subject of appeal to the Vestry, when after an exhaustive
discussion, the matter was at once remitted to the
London County Council for their consideration.
The reports by your Surveyor relating to this subject
are here reproduced in order to inform the Parishioners
that this subject has not been neglected by the Vestry,
and further that the remedy does not lie within the Vestry
control.
REPORT.
To the Sewers and Sanitary Committee:—
Re Fioodings on the occasion of Heavy
Rainfall on Tuesday night, the 26th
June, 1888, also on the Friday following
the above date.
Heavy rainfall. Having explained somewhat discursively to
your Committee on Tuesday evening last on the above subject,
when you received the several deputations, and also
the many complaints and written communications thereon,
I thought it desirable that I should, for your further consideration,
condense my statement and explanations of the
facts relating to the flooding on Fridav, the 26th June.
The rainfall in question, as registered at the Deptford and
Crossness outfalls of the Southern Metropolitan Sewers,
were respectively 1.75 and 2.10, between the hours of 6.30