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from various parties for fixing traps at outlets of
drains, constructing gulleys in new Streets, laying
drain pipes under Footways and Roadways in connection
with House drains, and for examining drains as
to causes of stoppage in them, and the want of traps.
Seventy-seven examinations from Sewers were
made as to the causes of stoppage in House drains,
and whether trapped at their outlets, at a cost to the
Applicants of £15:8:0.
In addition to the above mentioned Works, one
hundred and sixty subjects of Complaint have been
received and entered in a Book kept for that purpose,
referring to stoppages in Gulleys and Drains, and other
matters. In a majority of instances the drains were
relieved, and the remaining cases were promptly attended
to.
The operations of Cleansing Sewers, Gulleydrains
and Catch-pits, were carried out under the
general Contracts, from the passing of the Metropolis
Management Act in 1856 to March, 1873; but since
that period the Works have been performed by workmen
under the immediate control of the Vestry with
satisfactory results, as under:—
Upward of 300 cubic yards of heavy deposits
which impeded the flow of the sewage
matter have been removed from brick
Sewers to the surface of the Streets, and
thence carted away.
The Catch-pits constructed beneath the grates
of the Street Gulleys have been emptied