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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 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Particulars of New Sewers— continued.

Particulars of New Sewers— continued.

Lengths and Sizes, Feet Lineal.
Localities.24-in. pipe.18-in. pipe.15-in. pipe.I2-in. pipe.9-in. pipe.6-in. pipe.4-in. pipe.
Brought forward110193185786557123286...
Landford Road.........796.........
Lessingham Avenue.........520500......
Newton's Yard............167......
Netherfield Road.........340.........
Portsmouth Road.........124.........
Ramsdale Road............180......
Stapleton Road.........1188.........
Upper Richmond Road, by Beverley Brook............298...392 (iron)
Waldron Road.........1177.........
Wheatlands Road.........305.........
Total1101931857131058268286392

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Kingston
Road.
The ditch on the south-west side from Newland's Farm to a point
about 200 feet east of the junction of Portsmouth Road
and Kingston Road, has been piped with 9-inch and
12-inch pipes, and filled up, and the site added to the public way. The
work was done by Unemployed labour at a cost of £259 is. 9d.
The ditch on the south-west side from Stag Lane to Beverley
Brook, has been piped with 6-inch, 9-inch, 12-inch, 15-inch, and 18inch
pipes, and filled up, and the site added to the public way at a
cost of £196 3s. 1od.
The sewer beneath house No. 1, Lyham Road, has been re-conLyhamRoad.
constructed at a cost of £10 1 8s. 1d.
The defective 12-inch pipe sewer has been taken up and replaced
Newton's by a 9-inch pipe sewer on concrete, at a cost of
Yard. £70 195 4d.
Upper
Richmond
Road.
One of Adam's Patent Automatic Sewage Lifts has been constructed
at Priest's Bridge with 4-inch cast-iron rising
main, 9-inch pipe sewer and three manholes, to drain
Nos. 466, 468, 474, 476, 478, 480, 482 and 484, Upper Richmond
Road and Granville Lodge, which had hitherto drained into cesspools.
The lift was fixed by Messrs. Adams, Limited, under contract, and the