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Surbegor's Report.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Saint James & Saint John
Clerkenwell.
Gbntlemen,
I beg respectfully to submit the following Report for the
year ending Lady-day, 1872.
SEWAGE AND SANITARY WORKS.
During this period, 5 Sowers have been repaired and 26 cleansed,
4 new gullies have been constructed, 7 trapped, 25 repaired, and
208 cleansed; 42 house-drains have been laid down, comprising
1 15-inch, 2 12-inch, 17 9-inch and 22 6-inch, while 65 houses have
been drained and 1 house-drain trapped; 163 loads of soil have been
taken out and removed from the sewers and gullies; two new public
urinals have been erected, viz., one in Rosoman Mews, and one at
the junction of Farringdon-road and Coppice-row, and 7,297,000
gallons of water were used in watering the streets and roads.
ROAD AND PAVING WORKS.
For the maintenance and reparation of the roadway, 836 cube
yards of material have been used in the following proportions of the
various kinds, viz.:—
20 cube yards of Broken Aberdeen Granite.
408 „ „ „ Pebbles.
220 „ „ „ Flints.
188 „ „ „ Ballast.
3003 square ,, New Granite Paving.