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Drainage.
Chilton Street.
On 16th June, 1896, the Sanitary Committee reported having considered a latter from
Mr. Goodhew, the owner of 60 and 62, Chilton Street. with reference to the notices served
upon him relative to the drainage thereof, stating that as the house were drained by a
combined operation be was only liable for the connections, the Vestry being responsible for
the remainder of the work, and that the tenant of No. 62 held the house on a 21 years'
lease. and was therefore liable for what was required at those premises, and that there was
no record of the drain which drained several other houses and was connected with the
Earl sewer
Resolved— That the Surveyor be instructed to carry out the necessary work to the
drain in question, and that Mr. Goodhew be called upon to do the remainder of the work
required.
On 7th July, 1896, the Sanitary Committee reported that the Surveyor had reported
to them that to carry out the instructions of the Vestry to do the accessary work to the
main drain at the rear Nos 60 and 62, Chilton Street, he had opened the ground to trace
the line of drain, and, finding the condition bed. had continued his examination from No. 62
to No. 6 with the following results: from No. 48 to 62 the drain, which was 9 inches in
diameter, fell into Croft Street, was very near the surface at top end, nearly full of deposit
and was blocked about No. 58. From No. 46 the drain fell to No. 28. the pipes were 9 inches
in diameter and very irregular in gradient, the five houses near the lop bavins very little
fall: there were 6 inches of silt in the pipes, in some places the apigot ends of the pipes had
been placed together and the sockets broken off, and in No. 42 a 4-inch connection had been
made by cutting a hole in the main. From So. 6 the drain also fell to No. 28, the pipes pipes
were 9 inches in diameter, the condition nearly as bed as those previously described, and in
No. 8 the nonnection from tbe closet bad been funned by cutting a hole in the mam. and
making good with bricks.