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EIGHTEENTH GENERAL REPORT
OF THE
Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
SURREY,
For the Year ending 25th March.
1874.
During the past year seventeen General and Special Meetings, and twenty-seven
Committee Meetings of the Vestry have been held.
Sewers Works.
The following lengths of Brick Sewer and Pipe Drains have been laid viz.—
Brick Sewer 3 bv 2 560 feet
18 inch pipe drain 2 „
15 „ 672„
12 „ 1176 „
9 „ 294 „
6 „ 546 „
4 „ 44
Total 3294 „
Two side Entrances, 6 air and flushing shafts, 15 gullies, and Gratings and 11
drain mouths have also have formed and constructed, the cost of which in detail is
shown in the General Abstract on page 7 hereof.
The following is a statement of applications made to the vestry to drain houses and
premises, and the results consequent thereon.
Number of
Notices
received
So. of houses
permanently
drained
into covered
Sewers.
No. of
New boom
temporarily
drained
into Cesspools.
Buildings
and premises
other than
houses
drained.
Houses
Drains
Clea red.
Total Number
of Houses
and Buildings
inspected
for drainage.
50
100
68
5
8
181