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prove a saving. My experience tells me that the most prolific
cause of the stoppage of drains is the want of sufficient flushing,
and by the use of the tank the risk of a stoppage in the drain
would be reduced to a minimum.
The Ivy Lane Sewer drains the Lewisham and Deptford
Cemeteries, and at times the atmosphere of the sewer is very bad.
In order to disinfect such, coke has been burnt in three of the
man-holes for some months. The air of the sewer is now much
improved, but it is expensive keeping up the coke fires, and if the
same results could be obtained by flushing it would be cheaper.
The last of the cesspools upon Sydenham Hill was drained
into the sewer in Longton Avenue in January. For something
like twelve years I have been endeavouring to attain this result.
NEW ROADS.
The road mentioned in my last Annual Report as sanctioned,
in continuation of Brownhill Road to Hither Green Lane,
is now being made, at the cost of Earl St. Germans, and I expect
will be soon opened for traffic. Several trees were planted to
replace those that had died or been destroyed.