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Thirty-three 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 eighteen new streets.
Great improvements have been effected by the works
carried out by the Metropolitan Board, in constructing
Sewers at Water Lane and South Lambeth, by which the
open Effra Sewer, so long a source of nuisance and complaint,
has been filled in and abolished, and thus evils of the
greatest magnitude have been permanently removed. At
Water Lane the whole of the site of the Sewer has been
thrown into the public way, and the road widened to an
average extent of 12 feet.
At South Lambeth the site has been secured, so far as is
required to widen and improve the line of roadway from
Vauxnall Cross to the South Lambeth Toll-gate,
The construction of the Main High Level Sewer has
afforded the means of drainage for large areas, hitherto unprovided
for.