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REPORT, 1888-9.
above-mentioned drains, and report to the Surveyors
Department the result of such examinations, and for
which the sum of £25 has been paid to the Vestry.
The sanitary condition of the small brick and pipe
sewers have received the required attention, and as
often as necessary been flushed with water, in order
to remove foul deposits therefrom.
In the brick sewers, where heavy deposits had
• accumulated, principally from the debris of the roadways,
which in a fluid condition found its way into the
sewers through the gulley drains during heavy rainfall,
have been removed by the Vestry's sewer men. The
quantity so removed and carted away amounted to
one hundred and thirty-five loads.
The catchpits of the street gulleys act very beneficially
as the means of keeping a large quantity of
the road slop from entering the sewers, when in not
too fluid a state. The pits are daily examined, and
the deposits in them taken out by the workmen
engaged solely for the purpose, and carted away.
Seventeen hundred and eight loads have been removed
from the pits, which necessitated 33,377 separate
removals therefrom.
The public urinals, which are daily flushed and
cleansed with water, are situate in the following streets
of the Parish, viz.:—
Paddington Green,
North Wharf Road,