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The piece in the Haymarket was to replace a
most wretched brick culvert, it could be called
nothing else, that almost undermined the front wall
of the houses. The new buildings in course of
construction will obviate the necessity for the continuance
of this piece of sewer at all.
The old piece of sewer destroyed in Jermyn
street was also a most beneficial work, which might
have been advantageously done when the new sewer
was made. It was little more than an elongated
cesspool between the vaults of several houses on
each side, and cannot be illustrated without a
diagram, which would be superfluous, as the facts
were clearly understood by the Committee before the
commencement of the work.
Much time and labour is required to clear the
sewers running east and west, which from want of
fall cannot clear themselves. These, with attention
to the gullies—no light matter—form the chief items
comprised in the list of Sewers Works actually
executed.
The conversion of one old building and one comparatively
modern one into a public Mortuary House
and Examination Room, and the cost of the same
will appear in next year's report. Suffice it to
say now that these matters are accomplished as far
as the structural alterations are concerned.
The history of the building converted into the
Mortuary House would be a most interesting one
could its original purpose be ascertained. During the
alterations such curious foundations were brought to