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the north end thereof, with a side entrance, at the
Vestry's cost.
Three hundred and seventy-three distinct Works,
relative to the repair of sewers and gulleys, laying
pipe drains and fixing traps, were executed at a cost of
£1,947 18s. 8d. This sum includes £692 11s. 8d.
received from owners or occupiers of houses, for laying
drain pipes under the public foot-ways and road-ways,
in connection with house drains, constructing gulleys
in new streets, and fixing traps at outlets of drains.
One hundred and ninety-seven subjects of complaints
have been received, with reference to the
condition of house and gulley drains, and other matters,
which were promptly attended to.
In addition to the before mentioned works, one
hundred and twenty examinations were made from
sewers, as to alleged stoppages in house drains; also
as to their general condition and construction under
roadways and footways, and whether trapped at sewers.
The results were made known to the applicants who
paid the expenses incurred for such examinations.
The sewers which required flushing with water to
maintain them in a good sanitary condition, have been
attended to as often as considered necessary, and with
beneficial effects.
A certain number of workmen in the employ of
the Vestry, are constantly engaged in the operations