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together with the cost thereof; the chief items of which are 36,393
feet lineal of kerb; r,1118,613 feet superficial of paving; 126,805
lineal feet of pipe sewers and drains; and 16,530 lineal feet of
new brick sewers. The Vestry expended £160,000, besides
borrowing on the security of the rates £10,000.
1866.
Considerable paving works were carried out at a cost of
£1,392 11s. 10d.
The new streets taken to were Regent Street South, (since
with Regent Street incorporated under the name Maplin Street),
John Street, Albion Street, Carter Street, and Goodman's Road,
being an addition of 1,900 lineal feet to the Roads of the Hamlet.
Several streets had new sewers during the year, the quantities
being of—
Size of Sewer. Length.
3ft. 6in. by 2ft. 3im. 1,000 feet.
1ft. 0in. ,, 1ft. 0in. 1,300 ,,
It was in this year that your Surveyor drew up a report on the
sanitary condition of the Hamlet owing to the anticipated visitation
of Cholera, the most important particulars of which were —
“With regard to the general sewerage and drainage of the
Hamlet, I am enabled to say that there is not a house in the
Hamlet which has not the means of drainage into a sewer, although
in some few instances it occurs that there is not a sufficient sewer
immediately in front. These instances are few, and are in course
of being remedied.
"The state of our sewers, gullies, ventilating shafts, and in
many cases the house drains communicating therewith, is, to my
mind, not satisfactory."
Your Surveyor then quotes from a report of his own.
"It is within your knowledge that a very large number of closets
have been connected with the sewers without being provided with
water supply, the consequence of which is that the sewers are
never in as good sanitary condition as they would be if water
supply were in all cases enforced."
During the year 1867 no considerable paving works were
completed.
The new streets made up and taken to, were, Calverley Street,
Floriston Street, Copley Street, Carlton Road, Wentworth Road,
lengthening the mileage of roads by 2,780 feet.
On the 1st November, 1866, the Act of Parliament authorising
the Trustees of the Middlesex and Essex turnpike roads to levy
tolls terminated, and the maintenance of the road as a highway
devolved upon the various parishes through which it passed.