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the widening of the road, but which was then filled
in. After a thorough examination and consideration
of the matter, the Vestry resolved that a
pipe-drain be laid, and gullies constructed to take
off the surface water, and to discharge same into
the brook opposite the boundary road (Barnard
Hill) at the northern extremity of the parish.
The Surveyor then reported that, in opening
down upon the gullies and ventilators, he found that
there is a 12-in pipe drain under the footway from
tho northern boundary of the Parish of Clorkenwell
for a distance of about 130 yards, and that there is
a barrel drain passing from the lower gully underneath
the carriageway of Colney Hatch Lane, and
evidently intended to discharge into the ditch on
the Hornsey side of the road, find thence into a
brook in the meadows, and that the outlet of this
barrel drain is blocked up, and also that the gullies
and ventilating shafts had been constructed in a
most careless and improper manner, and he had
therefore had two brick gullies, with proper traps
and gratings, constructed so as to connect with
the drain referred to.
Tho Vestry have thereupon called upon the
Hornsey Local Board to open up the outlet of the
barrel drain referred to so that the surface water
passing down Colney Hatch Lane may find its
proper outlet.
Constant Water Supply.—In November, 1888,
the Vestry passed a resolution that the Now River
Company be requested to give a constant watersupply
to the remaining part of Clorkenwell at
present unsupplied.
To this request the Ventry received a reply from
the Company stating that the Local Government
Board are empowered to initiate constant supply,
if they think proper to do so; and that it would be