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builder, it was then ascertained to be an overflow drain of
two cesspools (since emptied) situated on the premises
Nos. 24 and 25, adjoining. Costs were recovered at Worship
Street Police Court.
Nos. 157 to 189, NEW NORTH ROAD, all belonging to separate
Owners. The drain common to Nos. 157 and 189, and the
fourteen intervening premises, being ascertained to be a very
dilapidated brick barrell, lying very flat and shallow and
being moreover filled up with sewage, and causing great
nuisances on several premises, it was necessary that this old
drain should be entirely removed; and it was desirable that
a new common drain should be constructed following the
course of the old one,—rather than each owner should be
compelled to provide a separate drain. The Vestry, recognising
the impossibility of so many owners doing this work in a
satisfactory manner, employed their Contractor, who removed
the old drain and replaced it by a 12-inch stoneware pipe drain.
The owners agreeing in writing to pay costs.
GRANVILLE BUILDINGS, LUKE STREET.-In these model
dwellings there are 106 suites of apartments, each suite having
a separate water supply, closet accommodation, and scullery
sink, all these arrangements were found to be of defective and
injurious construction. In twenty of the suites the cisterns
holding drinking water were placed immediately over the
water closets of apartments to which they belonged, and
immediately under the water closets of the apartments above,
with no effectual cover to prevent any water or soil which
might overflow the closet pan above, from polluting the
drinking water below. Many of the tenants complained of
the taste and smell of water obtained from these cisterns. The
closets in the other suites were in bad repair. The overflow of
pans, or the leaking of defective traps of pans, caused great
nuisances in many instances by saturating the apartments
below. The waste pipes to sinks were small, and constructed
with many sharp angles, which caused frequent stoppages, and