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A 15-inch pipe sewer, 142 feet long, has been laid by the Vestry in the rear of the
houses on the east side of Princes-street, from Church-street to Princes-street-alley, in lieu
of the old defective sewer there, and the several house-drains have been duly connected
therewith.
It being found on the digging out of the foundations for two new houses at the west end
and north side of Portland-place, Deptford Lower-road, that the sewer there ran partly
under the proposed site thereof, an arrangement was made with the owner of the property,
who paid for its alteration and diversion by the laying of 198 feet of 15-inch pipe in the
public way.
Complaints having been constantly made of the nuisance arising from the portion of the
Earl sewer in this parish remaining uncovered, the Vestry, in July, 1868, communicated with
the Metropolitan Board of Works on the subject, since which a barrel sewer has been
constructed by that Board in lieu of the open sewer, and the portion of the old channel complained
of has been filled up.
The Vestry having also called the attention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to the
fact of the existing sewer ventilators not being sufficiently perfect to prevent the escape of
effluvia, they received a reply, dated August, 1868, stating that the Board had lately
appointed a Special Committee to consider as to the desirability of offering a premium for
the best practicable plan by which the escape of injurious gases from the sewers could be
prevented, and at the same time the safety of the men working in them be preserved.
A 12-inch pipe sewer, 140 feet long, has been laid in Lucas-street, in lieu of a portion of
the old high level sewer running through Christ Churchyard, which had dropped in.