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In connection with now and old Sewers have been constructed—
2 Side Entrances,
9 Ventilators,
4 Manholes,
7 Flushing Boxes,
66 Gullies,
5 Gully Tans.
Fourteen old gullies have been repaired and trapped.
989 feet of pipe drains have been constructed for gullies and for
new urinals.
Old Sewers have been repaired of an aggregate 1ength of 493 feet.
Six hundred feet of brick sewers have been cleansed by the
Contractors of the Board.
Sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty feet of brick sewers have
been flushed and cleansed by workmen engaged by the Hoard.
The old sewer from Gould's Hill to Three Cup Alley, Shadwell,
having become decayed, had fallen in, to the danger of the buildings
over the same. A new sewer in lieu thereof was constructed in Three
Cup Alley, to communicate with the sewer in lower Shadwell, and the
old one was destroyed and filled in with concrete.
The arch of an old sewer under a building at the corner of Red
Lion Street and Green Hank having fallen in, a pipe sewer was constructed
in lieu of the old one, which latter was tilled in with concrete.
The drainage of a portion of Wapping Workhouse being defective,
the Board of Guardians of the Stepney Union requested the Board to
perform the necessary improvement works. New drains and other
works in connection therewith were constructed accordingly, and the
expense thereof paid by the Board of G uardians.
A contract for the construction of the new pipe sewers in Lime-