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SEVENTH GENERAL REPORT
of the
Destry of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
SURREY.
1863.
During the past year the Vestry has held twenty-two 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 479 feet
9 „ „ 792 „
12 „ „ 1943 „
15„ „ 60 „
3 by 2 feet brick sewer 166 „
Total 3440 „
Eleven new road-gulleys, one side entrance, and forty-one drain mouths and
junctions to sewers, have been formed.
Eighty-four applications have been made to drain houses into sewers, including
notices of intended new buildings and plans checked and approved, comprising about
223 houses and premises, 188 of which have been drained and completed.
About fifty cesspools have been done away with.
Application having been made for the building and drainage of eighteen houses at
the corner of Manor-road and Rotherhithe New-road, and for the filling up of a Portion
of the open ditch in front thereof, the Vestry ordered that 15 inch pipes should be laid in
lieu of the ditch, and three road-gulleys formed; the applicant to be allowed to execute
the work. The Vestry also directed that the said houses should be drained into cesspools,
with an overflow into the said pipe, as a temporary measure.