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Vestry's workmen, and the costs thereof, amounting
to £1,136 5s. 7d., were paid to the Vestry.
The total length of streets maintained at the
cost of the Vestry is 46 miles, 3 furlongs, 30 yards.
New Sewer Works.
In Canterbury Road or Kilburn Lane, west of
Ashmore Road, one hundred and twenty-seven feet
run of 3 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in., one brick sewer has
been constructed by the Vestry's Contractor, at a
cost of £92 6s. lid.
A moiety of this expense has been paid to the
Vestry by Mr. Dodds, the owner of Houses fronting
this sewer, and into which they are drained.
One hundred and twenty feet of sewer of the
capacity of 3 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. has been constructed
in Mozart Street, west of Bravington Road,
by, and at the expense of Mr. Dawkins, for the
drainage of houses there.
Ready means of access to, and egress from,
Brick sewers with head walls, in various Mews in
the Parish have been much needed, there being no
other means available except by side entrances in
distant streets. As these sewers were liable to be
flooded during heavy rainfall or sudden storm,
thereby endangering the lives of the Vestry's