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Three new slop vans were purchased from Messrs. Bailey &
Co., at a cost of £44 per van, and the whole of the vans and
carts belonging to the Board have been painted and lettered.
SEWERS DEPARTMENT.
BRUNSWICK STREET.
A new 12 inch stoneware pipe sewer has been laid in this
street throughout its whole length from Stamford Street to Meymott
Street. This new sewer replaces an old defective sewer
which formerly existed, the new sewer is at a much deeper level
than the old sewer, and will take the drainage of the houses on
either side of the street ; junctions have been left in for every
house, and it is hoped soon that all the houses on the western
side of the street will drain into this sewer instead of as at
present a number draining into a defective sewer in the rear.
The length of the new sewer is 737 feet, and the inclination
or fall varies from 180ft in 180ft to 1ft in 220ft. There are three
manholes in order that ready access may be had for cleansing
purposes. The levels of this sewer have been so arranged that