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in many instances, is complete, as we find the pipes
most completely filled, as if it had been done on
purpose, or by some intelligent agency. How it is
they keep clear as long as they do, is a mystery;
but, somehow or other, they do, and as the expense
of replacing them would be simply enormous, I
suppose the best must be made of a bad job, till
they will be gradually changed to something better.
Another source of responsibility which occasionally
occurs, is having to remedy the mistakes of predecessors.
It happens, as it appears to me, more
frequently than it should, that in constructing or
reconstructing Sewers, House and Gully Drains get
forgotten to be connected. The annexed list shews
the sum of about £39 expended in twelve months,
in this manner, and there has been more expended
since. The time that elapses between the drain
being cut off, and the discovery, is accounted for by
the excavation that is made for a Sewer, which will
allow of accumulations being deposited for years,
but at last all available spaces being filled, and the
ground saturated, the fact of no outlet becomes
patent, and after much trouble and investigation, it
is discovered that there is no outlet at all. The
burden of putting this straight rests with the local
authorities, as it should have been done at the time
the original work was done, and at the expense of
the then authorities.
literally nothing has been done in the matter of
Public "Halting Places," but the subject has been