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FOURTH GENERAL REPORT
OF THE
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE,
SURREY.
1860.
During the past year the Vestry have held twenty General Meetings, and thirtynine
Committee Meetings.
SEWERS' WORKS.
The lengths of drains and sewers laid by the Vestry to Lady-day are:—
Feet.
4-inch pipe 14
6 do. 364
9 do. 361
12 do. 170
3 feet by 2 feet sewer, (rear of Dartmouth-terrace, Rother-
hithe New-road 100
Total 1009
One entrance to sewer, three flushing-shafts, eleven roadgulleys, and thirty-eight
drain-mouths and junctions to sewers have been formed.
Eighty-five applications have been made to drain houses into sewers, including
notices of intended new buildings and plans checked and approved, comprising about
one hundred and eighty-four houses, one hundred and fifty-seven of which have been
drained and completed.
About eighty cesspools have been done away with.
The Vestry in July last again memorialized the Metropolitan Board of Works