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examination, in order, if possible, to relieve house
drains from obstructions or alleged obstructions in
them.
This facility of examination conduces to an appreciable
saving of expense to the applicants, inasmuch
as it obviates the necessity of opening the roadways,
often at considerable depths. If the sewers were of a
small capacity this would have to be done.
The small brick and pipe sewers in the Parish have
been much benefited by constant flushing with water
during the dry or hot weather of the summer months,
thereby assisting the removal of any deleterious deposits
in them and improving their sanitary condition.
During heavy rainfall there is generally a quantity
of sloppy grit and other refuse from the gravel and
Macadam Roadways washed through the gulley drains
and into the sewers. These deposits, amounting to
one hundred and three cubic yards have been removed
by the Vestry's workmen. Notwithstanding this
accumulation of deposit, a much larger quantity is prevented
entering the sewers by the constant removal
of slop from the catchpits of the street gulleys, the
quantity so removed being one thousand six hundred
and forty-eight cubic yards, involving 32,477 separate
removals therefrom in obtaining that quantity.
In order to keep the eleven Public Urinals in an
efficient state of cleanliness, they are flushed with