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The works in contemplation, at the date of the last Report,
(the 27th day of June, 1857,) were the construction of a Sewer
in the Clapham Road, and the repairing and kerbing the Footpaths
of Turnpike Roads within the Parish, the onus of repairing
which was cast upon the Vestry by the 244th Section of the
Metropolis Local Management Act.
These important Local Improvements are nearly completed,
the extent and nature thereof being hereinafter commented upon.
In effecting the same, a large outlay has necessarily been
made, but care has been taken by the Vestry to render the
present addition to local taxes as light as possible, by spreading
the re-payment of the Loans for such purposes over periods
of ten and twenty years.
The following are the various improvements effected in the
parochial year, described under the respective heads of Sewerage,
and Street and House Drainage Works, &c., at page 4; Sanitary
Matters, at page 9; Highways, New Works, and Improvements,
at page 15; and Lighting Matters, at page 21.
SEWERAGE, HOUSE DRAINAGE WORKS, ETC.
Amongst the New Works executed, the largest is the construction
of a Sewer along the Clapham Road, for the accomplishment
of which, fruitless efforts had been made from time to
to time by the occupiers and owners of property. The importance
of this Sewer is considerable, if regarded as affording
means for I )rainage to the houses in front of which it is carried;
but upon its construction depended the drainage of all the
district between the Brixton and the Clapham Roads, from
Kennington Church to Stockwell, an area of 300 acres, containing
upwards of four miles of roads and 1250 houses, the
lower part being subject to frequent floodings, and the upper
notorious tor its total want of drainage. The character of
this District is now entirely changed; the depth of the Sewers,