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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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shoots. The total number of loads collected last year was
18,706. At 9d. per load this would cost £701 9s. 6d. If the
the slop had to be taken away by barge the cost would have
been about 2s. per load, or £1,870 12s. The purchase money
has been raised by loan, repayable in 54 years by equal annual
instalments of capital, the interest on the balance being
at the rate of 3¼ per cent, per annum. The highest amount
payable in one year (the first) for capital and interest is
£287 11s. 3d. and the average annual amount spread over
the whole period is £196 3s. 8d. It will thus be seen that
a considerable saving to the parish has been effected.
The Board have under consideration the question of
laying out a portion of the land in allotments; and when
the whole of the area has been filled up with slop it is proposed
to lay it out as a recreation ground.
Trenches. The following statement shows the superficial area of pavements disturbed by the gas, water, and electric lighting companies, and others, for the laying and repair of their mains and services, viz.:—
| Kerbing (relaid) | 110 lineal feet. |
| Do. (new) | 28½ ,, |
| York paving (relaid) | 1,085½ superficial yards. |
| Do. (new) | 47½ ,, |
| Victoria stone paving (relaid) | 1½ ,, |
| Do. do. (new) | |
| Tar-paving | 1,763½ ,, |
| Blue paving bricks (new) | 1 ,, |
| Wood-paving (relaid) | l½ ,, |
| Do. (new) | |
| Granite setts (relaid) | 231 ,, |
| Granite macadam | 919 ,, |
| Flints and gravel | 4,357 ,, |
The total amount received during the year for
repairing trenches was £1,756 7s. 10d.