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The Vestry have caused a 12-inch pipe drain to be laid up Wells' Tenements, Deptfordroad,
to take the drainage of the houses there; also, to provide means of drainage for part
of the Workhouse premises and Claremont house.
Paving Works.
The following1 works have been done with new and old stone:—
New Granite carriage-way 33 tons.
Old carriage-way relaid 4802 yards.
Granite carriage-way rough dressed 479 „
New York paving 7838 feet super.
Old York paving relaid 15587 „ „
Old York new faced 271 „ „
New Granite Kerbing 12 by 7 1079 feet run.
Old Granite Kerbing reset 2400 „ „
Kerb reworked 1500 „ „
The following materials have been used in the reparation of the roads, footpaths, &c.:—
Guernsey Granite 206 yards.
Common „ 61 „
Thames Ballast 139 „
Rough Ballast 391 „
Ground carted 494 „
Street slop carted 930 „
Lime 22 „
Sand off' roads 30 „
Sand from river 2 „
Foundry Clinkers 463 „
The carriage-way and foot-paths, Rotherhithe Wall, between Love-lane and King-street,
have been taken up and relaid at a cost of £78.
The carriage-way paving in front of Mr. Weeks's premises, at the Platform, has also been
relaid.
Cross-street, Deptford-road, has been made up, paved, and drained, the several owners of
houses therein having paid their proportion of the cost as agreed.
Lighting.
During the past year four new lamps have been placed as follows, viz.:—One in Williamstreet,
Plough-road, two in Corbetts-Lane, and one in King-Street, at the corner of Sernes-alley,
making the total number of gas lamps in this Parish lighted under contract with the Surrey
Consumers Gas Company, 343 (for particulars of contracts see page 4.)
In September, 1863, the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company entered into a contract to supply
gas tor lighting the public lamps of this Parish for seven years, at £4 10s. 0d. per lamp per
annum, being a reduction in price upon the old contract of live shillings per lamp per annum.