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FIFTH GENERAL REPORT
OF THE
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ROTHERHITHE,
SURREY.
18 6 1.
During the past year the Vestry have held eighteen General and Special
Meetings, and twenty-four Committee Meetings.
Sewers Works.
The lengths of drains and sewers laid by the Vestry to Lady-day are:—
6 inch pipe drain
264 feet.
9 „ „ „
421 „
12 „ „ „
616 „
15 „ „ „
762 „
3 by 2 feet sewer
100 „
Total
2163 „
Open sewer filled and covered in, 840 feet run.
Two flushing-shafts, seven new road- gulleys, and twenty-seven drain-mouths
and junctions to sewers, have been formed.
Seventy-two 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 thirty houses and premises, one hundred and
twenty-four of which have been drained and completed.
About fifty cesspools have been done away with.