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Lewisham 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham District]
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been presented to the Board, they were preparing to comply with
the request thus expressed, when a public meeting of the inhabitants
was called, at which resolutions were passed condemnatory
of the measure, and it having appeared that if there was not a preponderance
against the lighting, there were at least as many ratepayers
disposed one way as the other, the Board adjourned the
further consideration of the question sine die.
SEWERAGE.
The Sewerage works, constructed during the past year, have been
very inconsiderable, and although a large sum (£1,524 13s. 3d.) has
been expended under this head within that time, nearly £1,300 of
it has been in respect of deferred payments on account of the Stanstead
Lane Sewer—the cost of which was £5,492 2s. 8d.,* being
about £1,000 in excess of the estimate—but the Sewer was made
nearly 300 feet longer than originally contemplated.
The bewers constructed by the .board during the past year to the 25th March, 1858, and their cost (as furnished by the Sewers Surveyor) have been as follows:—
| locality of work. | length in feet. | size. | materials. | cost. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | ||||
| Brockley Lane.—Extension of the branch sewer from Stanstead Lane | 300 | 12 inch | Pipe | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Wells Road.—On the north side of the road between Hanover Street and Springfield Hill | 178 | 9 inch | Ditto | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Same.—On the south side of the road between the same points | 120 | 12 inch | Ditto | 9 | 19 | 3 |
| Forest Hill.—From a point near the Paiish boundary next Peck-ham, along the road side within the Parish of Camberwell . . . | 282 | 12 inch | Ditto | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| Blackheath.—A branch from the valley line of sewer, parallel with the North Kent Railway, from a point at the rear of Grote's Buildings, and running northwards | 130 | 2ft. by 2ft. | Ilalf-brick | 19 | 17 | 0 |
| From the sewer in Tranquil Yale to Camden Row | 250 | 9 inch | Pipe | 126 | 10 | 7 |
| Penge.—A sewer parallel with the boundaiy ditch between the Hamlet and the Parish of Croydon, at the rear of the Belvidere Road | 310 | 12 inch | Pipe | 22 | 18 | 0 |
| Thus there has been constructed | 1,570 | eet at a cost of | £242 | 6 | 10 | |
*This was erroneously stated at £5,523 2s. 8d. in the previous report.