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a certain Sewer within the limits of the Metropolis, as defined by the act of the Nineteenth
Year of Queen Victoria, for the better Local Management of the Metropolis,
which Sewer is not vested in the said Board in or by the said Act, that is to say, the
Sewer commencing in Jamaica-row, in the County of Surrey, and within the said
limits, about 50 feet west of Salisbury-street, thence passing along Millpond-street,
Union-road, Paradise-row, and Lower Deptford-road, to the Main Earl Sewer, in the
County and within the limits aforesaid, being a length of 6,160 feet, or thereabouts,
ought to be considered a Main Sewer, and to be under the management of the said
Board. Now, therefore, it is ordered by the said Board, that the said Sewer be, and
the same is hereby declared to be a Main Sewer.
(Signed) E. H. Woolrych.
Clerk of the Board.
In October 1858 the Metropolitan Board of Works caused eight large air-holes
to be made in the Deptford-road Sewer, for the purpose of ventilating it (see Reports
of the Medical Officer of Health, for November and December 1858, and March
1859), and upon complaints of the nuisance arising therefrom being made to this
Vestry, and also being warned by the Medical Officer of Health of the danger to the
health of the inhabitants likely to arise in consequence of the letting out of such
large quantities of sewer gas, in the most frequented thoroughfare of the Parish,
the Vestry memorialized the Metropolitan Board of Works to stop up the air-holes,
(see Appendix No. 1), but no alteration being made, they petitioned the House of Commons
upon the subject, (see Appendix No. 2), and from thence the petition was referred
to the Metropolitan Board of Works for consideration; since which that Board
have caused the large air-holes complained of, to be replaced by smaller ones, and in
consequence the nuisance is not now so great as before the alteration was made, but
it is much to be desired that some other plan for the ventilation of this Sewer should
be adopted, and the present air-holes abolished altogether.
The Vestry have also memorialized the Metropolitan Board of Works to proceed
immediately with the Northern or Bermondsey Branch of the main drainage, in order
to relieve the water-logged condition of the sewers in this Parish.
PAVING WORKS.
The following works have been done with new and old stone:—
New dressed crossings and channels 225 yards
New granite carriage-way 182 do.
Granite carriage-way rough dressed 396 do.
Old carriage-way relaid 2,373 do.
New York paving laid 9,377 feet super.
Old York paving relaid 17,722 do.
Old York new faced 1,333 do.
New granite curb laid 766 feet run,
Old curb reset 6,351 do.
Curb reworked 297 do.