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41 private drains were let off by the sewermen at
the expense of the owners of the premises upon
which the drains wore stopped, for which the sum
of £4 2s. was received by the Vestry.
NEW SEWERS.
About 90 feet of 9-in. pipe sewer was laid in
Upper Yardley Street in place of a defective brick
barrel sewer.
About 130 feet of 12-in. pipe sewer was laid
in Mount Pleasant, in place of defective brick
barrel.
A small portion of the sower in Rosoman Mews
was reconstructed.
A portion of the old sower at the rear of the
houses in Brewhouse Yard was diverted from the
sewer formerly passing under the Cannon Brewery
and connected with the sewer in Compton Passago.
The whole of the sewers have now been destroyed
under the Cannon Brewery premises at the expense
of the Cannon Brewery Co.
The whole of the pipe sewers in the Parish were
flushed by water supplied by the New River Company,
and the brick sewers, where practicable, by
water from the main sewers being turned through
them by means of flushing gates fixed in the sewers
for that purpose.
The following table, showing the various sower