The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Yesterday, a meeting for the despatch of a very full
general paper of ordinary business was held in the Coun-
cil•chamber, Guildhall ; Mr. Thwaites, the president, in
the chair.

The chief-engineer, Mr. Bazalgette, presented about
five-and-twenty reports in reference to complaints,
memorials, and applications on the subject of sewerage.
The majority of these reports presented no features of
general interest, and wero disposed of without much
discussion. The engineer reported, inter alia, that he
had received a letter from the clerk to the vestry of Ber
inondsey, calling attention t‘) the foul condition of St.
Saviour's Dock and the• discharge of sewerage into it.
In reference to this, Mr. Bazalgette stated that the
►ewer which had formerly discharge) its contents into
the dock had recently been diverted, and that the only
remedy that would now thoroughly free the dock would
be either main drainage or the construction of the
Thames embankment.

Mr. DREW remarked that if the vestry of Bermondsey
had to wait for effectual relief until either of the works
specified were carried out, he feared that they would
have to wait until they—the members of the board—
were all dead. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
On the recommendation of the engineer, the board
agreed to pay over 4001. to Mr. G. Axton upon his
covering over a portion of the Stamford brook sewer,
which work, it properly executed, would amount, in
the opinion of the officer, to 1,0001.
In reference to a complaint from the Seaman's hos-
pital Society of the discharge of offensive matter in the
river ac Deptford Creek, near the Dreadnought Ship, a
report was read from the Engineer, from which it ap-
peared that the nuisance most probably arose from the
sewer of the adjoining gas works.
A memorial was some time since received from the
inhabitants of Hanover-square, Clapham-road, request-
ing the board to arch over a portion of the Effra sewer,
in that locality. Upon this
Mr. TURNER. said he thought an answer ought to be
returned to the memorialists, stating that their applica-
tion could not ba granted, and informing them, at the
same time, that the board had acceded to a similar peti-
tion from another quarter only on the parties themselves
undertaking to pay the cost.
A long discussion took place upon the proposition of
the chief engineer, to construct 2,600 feet of main brick
sewer in Kensington, at a cost of 3,5001. The recom-
mendation was based upon theoomplaint of Mr. Dolman
and others, of the flooding of houses by the insufficiency
of the sewer in Pembroke-road, Kensington.
Several members thought that the board ought not to
decide upon sanctioning so large an expenditure, when
an under:lW ding bad been come to among the members
that no large work should be undertaken h-fore Octo-

ber.
Mr. LESLIE more especially opposed any immediate
action, on the ground that the great question of pipe
and brick sewers was involved in this matter, and that
the board ought not to proceed to construct so costly a
brick sower without a full inquiry into the cau,,o of the
failure of the old main pipe sewer.
Eventually the further consideration of the report was
p )stponed fora f,r'Aiight.