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choked, while the social strata are dispersed horizontally. All this
has a very important bearing on national physique, and obviously
the stimulus for a reversion to better methods must come, not from
central authorities, but from suburban councils on the outskirts of
the great cities.
Sewerage.
The increase in the number of houses and streets has thrown
great stress on the existing sewers and surface water drains.
In consequence of an exhaustive report by Mr. Tomes,
Surveyor to the Council, who kindly furnished me with the
accompanying plan, works of some magnitude, designed to cope
with the present situation and eventualities of no very distant date,
are already in progress.
As the main sewer, which runs along the towing path, is
found to be becoming inadequate to carry off the amount of sewage
with which it now has to deal, it is proposed to direct the Mortlake
sewage from it into the main sewer of the Joint Sewerage Board
at Kew Lane. This will allow the sewer by the towing path to
collect the Barnes sewage only, and will be accomplished by laying
a new sewer—shown by a long dotted line on the plan. As a rapid
development of building estates is occurring south of the Upper
Richmond Road and east of Sheen Lane, severely taxing the
capacity of the sewer which at present deals with this part of the
district, it is proposed to put in a relief sewer (shown by a round
dotted line on the plan) which will take the sewage from this
locality by a new route to the Joint Sewerage Board's main sewer.
The new sewers have in all cases been designed of capacity
sufficient to fully cope with the future development of the various
localities.