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That this sewer was made by the Co~ners of
Surrey and Kent, about the.yea,r 1842. ^ about three mile, end end e half
Earl/which empties itself into the River 1 names,
below London Bridge.
i n • u e Pni-liprliithe lias verv considerably increased.
That the drainage of the 1 aris 1 o nrovisions of the Metropolis Local
by reason of your Petitioners having sewers and ditches, which formerly
Management Act, and filled up some miles of open sewers ana
intersected the Parish.
That this low level sewer, has to receive the drainage from up-ml- .1m,u-
sand seven hundred houses, and several largo mannfactones, and in "
low level of the Parish of Rotherhithe, and also from the construction of the outlet
into the Earl sewer,it can only disgorge its contents (lining t\\" ■ ■ '■ v
under the most favourable circumstances, and sometimes not at all. nd then t"ie thru?
is constantly a very considerable quantity of sewage remaining h> -ki d m by the tidal
flap at the south end, where it joins the Earl sewer.
That in the month of August, 1858, the Metropolitan Board of W< i t<> the
management of this sewer under their jurisdiction, and added t > it- aln : ly <>vrrburthened
condition by turning the sewage of the neighbouring Pari-h ' 1 - im y
into it.
That since the Metropolitan Board of Works have taken t!i 1> ' r.l-r.*ad
Sewer under their control, they have caused eight air-holes to be n dr d il rent
parts thereof, all of which are much larger than are to be found in diilen I calities,
and from which large volumes of deleterious gases are continuously ami:
That very numerous complaints, have been made by the Inhabitai t- and Passengers,
of the extremely offensive and dangerous exhalation of gases from these airholes.
That this sewer being generally much charged with sewage—which must remain
stagnant and pent up for many hours—large volumes of deleterious -a-e> are continuously
steaming up from those air-shafts, poisoning the air for a considerable dis-
uninLbitable" S nelShbourliood unhealthy, and at times, almost
That the Metropolitan Board of Works are also cleansim- this sewer but in so
doing tneir contractors or men, leave the deposit-matter tnkm°nnf f '
lying on the Road, and extending thereon to an areHf a ,0,7^ T,'^ ^
indifferent places,-exposed to\he air for days, prevSi removtl ^ ^
Parisl^re'tnSy complaininl of^he dnntfto'ti O^bb arising from the inhalation of the gases from this sewer I I " , ,e Inllabita"te,
the most deleterious of all gases, and they have warned your Pet