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Dock may be regarded as a common
nuisance at all times— in the summer
especially: a person led blind
fold down the Commercial Road,
would be arrested at. the site
of offence. Into this Canal, to
economise the water, the Company
were then pumping backwards, as
they have since, some thousand
gallons of the Dock water an hoar
—an engineering feat of filth that
by no means lessened the mischief.
The Lea Cut close by, nearly meeting
at a right angle, goes very far
towards filling up the measure of
sanitary abominations. When a
fashionable Whitebait party, in the
season, has come hitherward, how
often has the suddenlyuplifted
handkerchief told its tale of the
Canal and the Cut— the meeting of
the waters.
3. The high and middle level of
the great drainage system unite at
Old Ford, forming the Great Northern
Outjall leading to Barking.
It is all very well to take away the
sewage from the uplands of the
north and the wealthy west, and
convey it in an opposite direction
following the descent of the valley
of the Thames, but the East districts
have to pay for it in more
ways than by taxation. This, along
with others on a minor scale, will