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The Repairs and General Works during tho past year,
include the repair and maintenance of Sewers, Drains, and
Gullies, and comprise items of the ordinary character.
Flushing and Cleansing have been carried out aa before, and
the Sewers, both covered and open, are in a fair 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, litis been with tho Vestry.
The House Drainage has been somewhat more than last year,
from the circumstance of several New Sewers having been
constructed. The applications for house drainage are for 630
houses, upon which about £1,459 has been paid into the office.
The estimated cost of private work done by tho applicants is
£14,000, which has been executed under tho inspection and
general supervision of the officers of tho Vestry.
New Buildings. Tho Vestry havo received notices for
building 348 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-four applications, made to tho Metropolitan Board of
Works, for leave to bring out and alter frontages, havo been
referred to the Vestry, and reported upon by them.
The approval of the Metropolitan Board has been given for
the formation of forty one New Streets.