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TENTH GENERAL REPORT
OF THE
Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
SURREY,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING 25th MARCH.
1866.
During the past year the Vestry has held nineteen General and Special Meetings, and
twenty-five Committee Meetings.
Sewer3 Works.
The lengths of drains and sewers laid by the Vestry to Lady-day, are :—
6-inch pipe drain 606 feet
9 „ „ 508 „
12 „ „ 424 „
15 „ „ 758 „
18 „ „ 18 „
3 by 2 feet brick sewer 622 „
Total 3026
Six road-galleys, five gratings, fifty-three drain mouths and junctions to sewers, and one
side entrance, have been formed and constructed.
Seventy applications have been made to drain houses into sewers, including notice a of
intended now buildings, and plans checked and approved, comprising about 160 houses and
premises, all of which have been properly drained and completed.
About nineteen cesspools have been done away with.