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state of cleanliness. Complaints of stoppage, flooding, and
other defects have been promptly examined and remedied
as far as possible, where the duty of doing so has been with
the Vestry.
The House Drainage has been less than in previous
years, from the circumstance of fewer new sewers having
been constructed. The applications for house drainage are
for 420 houses—upon which about £500 has been paid into
the office. The estimated cost of private work done by the
applicants is £4000, which has been executed under the
inspection and general supervision of the officers of the
Vestry.
New buildings.—The Vestry have received notices
for building 357 new houses, the drainage of which, and the
level of the lowest floors in relation to the sewers have been
considered and approved as directed by the Act.
Thirty-eight 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.
The approval of the Metropolitan Board has been
given, for the formation of twenty-two new streets.