James Broadbridge

“ The branch on the west is an open stream, passes as a brick sewer under the Canal and the Great Western Railway, where it again appears as an open ditch, and continues along on the verge of the Parish, there it crosses into the Latimer Road out of the Parish Boundaries,—at this point it is a brick sewer. ”

“ Air shafts have been formed for carrying off the poisonous Gases from the Sewers; and many Gulleys have been trapped.
The flushers have cleansed about 8 miles 3482-ft. of brick sewer, removing deposits therein, varying from 6 inches to 2-ft. which deposits have been carted away, and have also flushed with water from time to time pipe sewers to an extent of 71⁄2 miles.
232 Applications have been made and granted to drain houses and premises both voluntarily and in consequence of notices issued by the vestry, and in all cases where cesspools have existed they have been filled in or broken up. ”

“ It is worthy of remark, that after representations made by the vestry to the General Board in August last, they directed a sewer of equal size, viz.: 5ft. 6in. by 3ft. 6in. to be substituted for the 18 in. stoneware pipe, which will effectually remedy the very serious evil pointed out.
The total lengths of sewers in this parish, under the immediate direction of the vestry, are as follows:
The open sewers are not in closely populated districts, but chiefly in that portion of the parish at present under cultivation as grass land or market gardens. ”