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In this amount is included the sura of
£1,115 5s. 7d., received by the Vestry from various
persons, for the construction of drains and other
works required by them.
One hundred and fifty-eight complaints received
in this Department, having reference chiefly to
obstructions in house drains and gulleys from
various causes, and bad smells emanating therefrom,
have been attended to at once, and the cause of
complaint removed where possible so to do.
Relative to examinations as to stoppages in
drains, consequent on the before-mentioned complaints,
the usual course taken is to examine their
condition from sewer and insert drain rods along
them and remove the obstruction; but should any
drain be found broken in, either under the roadway
or footway as the case may be, so that the obstruction
cannot be removed and necessitates their
re-construction, the applicant pays the Vestry the
cost of a new drain and for previous examination.
The total number of these examinations amount to
one hundred and twenty-two.
As many of the brick sewers in the Parish have
not sufficiently quick gradients to allow of their
being self-cleansing, it becomes necessary, in order
that accumulations of deposit may be removed