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Repairs and General Works, during the past year,
include the repair and maintenance of the Sewers, Drains, and
Gulleys, and comprise items mainly of small amount.
Flushing and Cleansing has been carried on during the
year with satisfactory results, the whole of the Sewers, both
covered and open, being in a comparatively good condition.
Complaints of flooding, and other annoyances arising from
stoppage or defects in drainage, have been promptly examined
and remedied, where the duty of doing so has been with the Vestry.
House Drainage has been actively carried out in the
localities where new Sewers have been made, and the private
work has generally been done well. 385 applications have been
made during the year, for leave to drain 890 houses, of which
556 have been connected with new Sewers lately made by the
Vestry. The amount paid into the Office upon these applications
for openings into the Sewers, was £1,420 12s. 7d., and the
estimated cost of the private work done by these applicants, is
£10,680, all of which has been executed under the personal
inspection and supervision of the Officers of the Vestry.
New Buildings.—The Vestry have received notices for
building 177 new Houses, the drainage of which, and the levels
of the lower floor, have been considered and approved, as directed
by the Act.
Twenty py.seven Applications made to the Metropolitan
Board of Works for leave to bring out and alter frontages; have
been referred to the Vestry, and reported upon by them. These
nutters have always had full consideration, and the recommendations
made by the Vestry have in most cases been adopted.