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29
REPORT, 1888-9.
roads taken to by the Vestry under the Metropolis
Local Management Acts, and the cost of construction
charged to the owners of property in such localities.
Other gulley drains in different parts of the Parish,
which were defective, have been re-constructed and
repaired as circumstances required, those re-constructed
numbering 35, and those repaired 40.
New pipe drains have been constructed from sewers
to urinals in Conduit Place and Oliver Mews, at a
cost of £31 8s. 9d.
Eighty-nine applications have been received from
time to time to have old house drains re-constructed,
which upon inspection were found either broken in
under roadways or otherwise defective, or where it
was considered advisable to have new drains laid in
improved positions to that of the old ones. These
works have been carried out by the Vestry's Contractor
at the cost of the applicants.
The Sewers Jobbing Works executed this year
include the completion of the drainage works ordered
by the Vestry to be carried out to the houses on the
AVest side of Maida Vale, also the drainage works
under roadways from houses and other buildings in
various parts of the Parish. The construction and
re-construction of sandpits and gulley drains in streets,
and providing and fixing stoneware block flap-traps at
their outlets, also at the outlets of house drains.