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In Cambridge Street, one Air Shaft to Sewer
has been made; ninety-nine Gaily Drains have
been constructed in different parts of the Parish
for the purpose of carrying off the surface water.
Total length of Brick Sewer constructed,
7247 feet run. Total length of Drain Pipe laid
down, 16,578 feet run. The value of these Works
I estimate at £ 6115.
The Sewerage Works constructed by W.
Crockett, Contractor, in Cambridge Street,
Oxford Square (North side), Porchester Place and
Polygon Mews South, are part of the improvements
suggested in my Report of the 12th May,
1858, on the condition of the Old Sewers in
Paddington. On the 26th April, one month after
the completion of the Contract, I passed through
the Sewers in question, and found them in excellent
working order. Seven Head Walls, where foul
gases accumulated, have been destroyed, and there
is now a strong current of air passing through the
whole of the Sewers in this locality.
About three miles of Brick Sewers, in which
the deposit varied from two to nine inches in
depth, have been thoroughly cleansed, the hard
deposit which could not be removed by flushing,
was raised to the surface and carried away in
carts.