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pany's brick arch, no footway existed before at this spot; the
new portion is about 70 feet in length.
Duke Street.
A portion of the Carriageway of Duke Street, about 200 0
superficial yards has been relaid.
Trenches,
The Gas, Water, Hydraulic Power, Telegraph, Electric Lighting
and other Companies, have opened 690 Trenches in the
Carriageways and Footways during the year.
The London Electric Supply Corporation have laid their
Electric Mains through Newcomen Street, Union Street,
Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, Cross Street. Southwark
Street, Boro' High Street, and Duke Street, a length of about
10,000 feet. Their Trunk Mains have been laid in the
Carriageways, but their Distributing Mains under the Footways,
excepting in the case of Southwark Street, where the mains
are laid in the Subway which runs throughout the length of
the street.
The London Hydraulic Power Company have extended
their main in Red Cross Street from Union Street to
Marshalsea Road.
Sewer Works.
The following are the principal Works executed in connection
with the Sewers, &c., during the year:—
Bennett St.
The old High Level Brick Sewer in this street between
Stamford Street and Upper Ground Street has been abolished
and a new 10-in. glazed stoneware pipe sewer laid in its
place; the old sewer which was nearly five feet in height was
in a most dangerous and insanitary condition, it being difficult
to flush, the invert had been forced up through pressure of the
side walls, and in consequence the sewage matter formed into
stagnant pools and only a certain proportion found its way into
the Stamford Street sewer; the new 15-in. pipe has been laid
in nearly the same line as the old sewer, but to a much better
fall and at a lower level, it can also be thoroughly flushed by
tidal water from the Thames through the Barge House Flushing
Penstock. All the house connections which formerly