of the creek is also reduced from 2960 to 1570 square feet. The accompany. ing plans Nos. IIT and IV convey a good idea of the obstruction caused to navigation, The rebuilding of the Stone Bridge in one clear span is @ matter of the, greatest importance, and should of course be effected under foreign supervision and at tho joint cost of the Council and the native authorities, Water Supply.—Water tanks and/or filters are in course of construction on the south of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Company's Ind. Wooden bunding is being constructed to " creek ronning parallel with the Railway Com-pavy's boundary and along the Cantonese Cemetery, and apparently connecting with the Soochow Creek.
Tt woold appear as if the ditch thus formed was to be used ass duct from the Soochow Creek to the Waterworks, It should be noted that the Shanghai Waterworks Company, Ld. supplies water to the greater portion of the district round North Szechuen Road and the Rifle Range, Drainage.—Whatever sewers have been Isid appear to have been constructed without any regard to the principles of sanitation, I will tal one case in particular, Some fi ago the Council diameter sewer slong Haining ith its which ran along the northera boundary of the Settlement, Abou two years ago the Chai decided to fill in the creek and constroct a road on the site. Previous constructing the road they laid a 2 3" and 1' 6" egg-shaped sewer for 1600 feet in the bed of the old creek with its outfall to dead The tubes were not to an even gradient bat ran op bill and dowa, with a result that the sewer is practically one long cental ing Ne obnoxious black sewage, Plan No. V shows the lines and levels to which the sewer was laid.
What might appear to be face walls to culverts going under roads are in ality only frames for sluices which impound the water in what have been drainage creeks in order apparently that it may be let off to flash sewers.
General.—As far as public works and sanitary conditions are concerned, there can be 20 comparison between 8 of Chapel above ref have what up to quite recently was an undeveloped district where there was plenty of scope for the Chinese to show what they could do to lay out " Settl - Ao the other hand we have a district which has been gradually developed under foreign administration as " result of necessary expansion of the Settlement in a northerly direction, though as I id before, the Chinese attitude has throughout been one of obstruction, 'A walk through the respective districts will show the difference between squalor: under Chinese and cleanliness and sanitation ander Foreiga administration, Cnas. H. Govrazy, ingincer Surveyor, Tuly 29, 1910, 287
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