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The defective condition of eighty-two old brick
and pipe drains, under the public roads and footways
from houses and other buildings, has necessitated
their reconstruction from the sewers, at the
cost of the persons requiring the work to be done.
The foregoing works, together with the construction
of side entrances to sewers, air openings
over them, gulleys in new streets, and repairs to
sewers, gulley drains, and catchpits, fixing traps to
outlets of guilley and house drains, have been carried
out by the contractor at a cost of £2,058 7s. 3d.
This amount includes the sum of £1,003 13s. 3d.
received from builders and others for works required
by them to be executed.
All subjects of complaint received, numbering
one hundred and seventy-four, whether arising from
stoppages in drains, offensive smells therefrom, or
other causes, have been at once attended to.
One hundred and twenty-four house drains have
been examined from sewers in order to ascertain
their condition for parties making application and
paying for such examinations. In the case of
drains found stopped by an accumulation of deposit
or local obstruction which could be removed, the
same was effected by the use of drain rods, but