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12 inch, 374 feet of 9 inch, 4,936 feet of 6 inch, and 35 feet of 4 inch
pipe drains (making in all a total of 224 outlet drains) have been laid
under the public ways of the parish.
These works were carried out at private expense, the cost, amounting
to £1,005 l1s. 5d , having been first deposited with the Vestry by
the persons for whom the works were executed, in accordance with
estimates prepared by the Surveyor.
424 houses have been drained or re-drained at private expense, the
work in conncction therewith, which included the laying of 132 feet of
12 inch, 305 feet of 9 inch, 26,687 feet of 6 inch, and 11,898 feet of
4 inch glazed stoneware pipes, the construction of 230 inspection
chambers, the fixing of 212 intercepting traps, 374 ventilating pipes,
497 closet pans, and 1,177 trapped gullies, having been carried out
under the supervision of the Surveyor. The approximate cost of this
work was £6,643 17s. 6d.
The Yestry, on the 4th March, 1892, approved and adopted regulations,
prepared by the Chief Surveyor, respecting drains and sanitary
arrangements of houses and other buildings. These regulations will,
no doubt, lead to the more perfect sanitation of houses and other
buildings hereafter to be erected or rc-draincd.
PROPOSED INTERCEPTING SEWER FROM CROUCH HILL
TO HOLLO WAY ROAD.
In connection with the proposed intercepting sewer to take the
storm water from the north-eastern portion of Upper Holloway, referred
to in the last annual report, it is understood that the Main Drainage
Committee of the London County Council have been advised by their
Engineer that the proposed use of the Ilolloway relief sewer would
relieve the immediate district only at the expense of producing still
more serious evils lower down the line of that sewer, and that nothing
can be done until the sewerage works of the Metropolis are increased