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REPORT, 1887-8.
trenches are filled in. Inspection chambers with
intercepting traps, properly ventilated, are also constructed
by the builders in the positions stated in the
orders of the Vestry.
Gulley drains, for the drainage of portions of new
roads taken to as Parish Roads, have been constructed
by the Vestry's Contractor at the expense of the
persons building in the locality, and in some instances
by the owners themselves.
Eighty-nine new pipe drains have been laid from
sewers to houses and other premises in lieu of defective
ones taken up. These works were completed at a cost
to the applicants amounting to £790 lls. lid.
Other jobbing work, comprising new drains for
houses in Maida Vale, from No. 1 to 35, construction
and re-construction of sandpits and gulley drains,
providing and fixing flap traps to outlets of house
and gulley drains, &c., have also been executed by the
Vestry's Contractor, at a cost of £1,133 0s. lOd.
The sum of £84 15s. 5d. has been received from
the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, the Gas
Light Company, and others for drainage works executed
for them.
One hundred and eighty-six complaints have been
received in this department from various persons with
reference to the unsanitary condition of house and
other drains, arising either from obstructions in them