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The usual process of cleansing certain large brick
sewers in the Parish has been carried out, and the
heavy deposits, amounting to one hundred and
twenty-nine cubic yards, have been removed in the
ordinary way where necessary.
The flushing of the small brick and pipe sewers
with water has also been carried out to a larger extent
than usual, owing to dry weather experienced during
the summer months, thereby keeping them in a
sanitary condition.
The sewers continue to be benefitted by the
constant removal of deposit from the catchpits of
gulleys, such deposit being slop, dung, and other
debris from the surface of the roadways during
rainfall, which would otherwise enter the sewers and
be detrimental to the free flow of the sewage.
The quantity of deposit thus removed has
amounted to 2,506 cubic yards, or 32,366 separate
removals from sandpits.
Two additional public urinals, each to accomodate
five persons, have been erected by the Vestry,
viz.: one in Marlborough Street, by Westbourne
Park Passage, which is cleansed and flushed with
water daily, and one in Westbourne Park Road,
opposite Shrewsbury Road, which has a constant