View report page

79
CONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL SEWERS.
In the month of May the Vestry received a circular
letter from the London County Council inviting the cooperation
of the local authorities in securing that local
sewers shall be constructed only in accordance with the
plans and sections approved by the Council. In accordance
with the suggestions of the Council, the Vestry
instructed their Surveyor to deposit with the Chief
Engineer of the Council, within thirteen months after
approval, copies of the approved plans and sections of such
sewers with a certificate (assuming such to be the case)
that the whole of the work has been carried out in
accordance therewith.
A month later, the Vestry received a further letter from
the County Council suggesting that persons proposing to
construct new sewers should be required to properly ventilate
the same. The Vestry have already obtained the
erection of ventilating pipes or shafts to local sewers at
various points in the Parish, and informed the Council that
their suggestion would be adopted, as a continuance of this
policy, if occasion arises.
PULTENEY STREET IMPROVEMENT.
The Vestry have entered into an agreement with the
Commissioners of Woods for the completion of this
improvement.
The Agreement provides that, subject to the new premises
being fully licensed, the "Round House" public-house is
to be re-erected to the line of frontage of the other build-