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Parish of St. Giles, Camberwell.
Board of Guardians,
Offices:—Peckham Road, Camberwell, S.E.
25th February, 1892.
Dear Sir,
Proposed Workhouse, Constance Road, East Dulwich.
I am directed by the Guardians to inform the Vestry
that they have accepted a tender for the erection of a
Workhouse for the Parish on land at the end of Constance
Road, East Dulwich, and the work will be at once
commenced.
The Guardians are advised by their architect that
there is a possibility of the sewer capacity in the Constance
Road being unequal to meet the requirement of the
drainage from the new premises, they therefore deem it
advisable to bring the same under notice, and to ask for the
assistance and co-operation of the Vestry in giving to the
question their earliest consideration.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) CHAS. S. STEVENS,
Clerk to the Guardians.
Mr. G. W. Marsden,
Clerk to the Vestry, Camberwell Parish.
REPORT.
The capacity of the sewer in Constance Road (viz.:
a 12-in. pipe, laid some years since for the drainage of the
houses only in that road) is not sufficient to provide for the
additional drainage of the intended Workhouse, and also
the surface drainage of a considerable area of land, south-