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is not proposed to take any means for the improvement
of the bed of the lake, until the execution of
the works, proposed by the Metropolitan Board, for
the complete exclusion of Sewage.
III. Disinfection of Sewers.
With a view to obviate the offensive emanations
arising from gully grates in certain parts of the
Parish where the Sewers are insufficiently ventilated
or contain deposit, a plan of disinfection was
adopted at a cost of about £8. It was applied in the
following localities, viz.:—Hyde Park, Gloucester,
Oxford and Cambridge Squares; Market, Star,
Sale, Porchester, Cambridge, Dudley, Hermitage
Streets ; Oxford, Sovereign, Torrington, Polygon
and Bathurst Mewses. The plan was so successful,
that it is proposed to repeat its application during
the present summer in those localities in which it
shall appear necessary. In many of the instances
above-named it may be confidently anticipated
that the improvements which have been made
during the past winter, in connecting the closed
extremities of Sewers with each other, and thus
ensuring the free circulation of air along them,
will completely obviate the evil which has been
referred to.
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