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Junction Place, between Praed Street and Market
Street, for the drainage of the first four houses in
Praed Street, west of Junction Place, which could not
be drained into the Sewer in Praed Street in consequence
of the Sewer in such street being under the
permanent way of the Metropolitan Railway.
The Pipe Sewer in Lanark Place has been continued
to admit the drains from two houses lately
erected there.
The whole of these Works have been executed at
the expense of the respective owners of the beforementioned
Property, under the superintendence of the
Vestry's Officers.
Six hundred and one distinct Works relative to
the repair of Sewers and Gullies, laying Pipe Drains,
and fixing Traps have been executed at a cost of
£3,459 19s. l1d. This sum includes £647 4s. 9d.
received from various parties for fixing Traps at
outlets of drains, constructing Gullies in new Streets,
and laying Drain Pipes under the Footways and
Roadways in connection with House drains.
Eighty-one examinations from Sewers were made
as to the cause of stoppage in House drains, and
whether trapped at their outlets, at a cost to the
Applicants of £16 4s. 0d.
In addition to the above-mentioned Works, one
hundred and fifty-seven subjects of Complaint have