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their explorations, and the sand and heavy soil
beginning to run into the sewer, soon caused
an obstruction; there was another reason viz.,
the defects in the brickwork which in these
sewers is only inches or half a brick thick;
this may be ample as longs a all goes well, but
cannot stand any little movement or settlement
however slight; and with regard to sewers works
generally, the injuries are by no means the work of
time only, for the indefatigable rat assists nature
very materially in causing and extending evils of
many kinds.
regent street.
Several of these items appear in connection
with the Regent Street Sewers, which I am sorry
to say have not improved, and several small sums
have been paid to the inhabitants where they have
themselves, thinking their drains were defective,
attempted to remedy the evil, which eventually
turned out to be the duty of the Vestry.
side entrances.
One peculiar item is a charge for chaining down
or otherwise securing almost the whole of the
side entrances to the sewers, a measure considered
at the time essential, as a means of preventing