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SIXTH GENERAL REPORT
of the
Venstry of the Parish of rotherhithe.
SURREY.
1862.
During the past year the Vestry have held sixteen General and Special Meetings,
and twenty-nine Committee Meetings.
Sewers Works.
The lengths of drains and Sewers laid by the Vestry to Lady-day, are:—
6 inch pipe drain 261 feet
9 „ „ 178 „
12 „ „ 118 „
3 by 2 feet brick sewer 200 „
Total 757 „
Seven new road-gulleys and sixteen drain-mouths and junctions to sewers have
been formed.
Seventy-five applications have been made to drain houses into sewers, including
notices of intended new buildings, and plans checked and approved ; comprising about
307 houses and premises, 284 of which have been drained and completed.
About forty-five cesspools have been done away with.
The Sewer in the rear of Dartmouth-terrace, Rotherhithe New-road, has been
extended 200 feet further westward, the ground landlord having contributed towards
the cost as heretofore.