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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
St Giles (Camden) 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Total number of up-cast shafts to local sewers carried
| up tbe fronts ot adjacent buildings | 121 | |
| Do. | manhole covers over sewers, tanks, &c. | 33 |
| Do. | manhole covers over subways belonging to the London County Council | 14 |
| Do. | sewerside entrances to local sewers | 66 |
| Do. | to main sewers | 15 |
| Do. | street orderly bins for street sweepings | 61 |
| Do. | ballast bins | 27 |
Certain of the sewers in the District which have dead
ends, or in which the flow of sewage is not sufficient to
enable the sewer to be self-cleansing, are fitted with flushing
tanks.
They are as follows:—
| Chapel Yard | 450 | gallons. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Charing Cross Road | 1,100 | do. | do. do. |
| Great Turnstile | 830 | do. | do. do. |
| Hall's Yard | 400 | do. | Screw-down Penstock. |
| Henrietta Mews | 600 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Hyde Street | 650 | do. | Screw-down Penstock. |
| Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1,200 | do. | Screw-down Penstock. |
| Lumber Court | about 730 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Montague Mews two tanks each 450 | do. | do. do. | |
| Newman's Row | 1,000 | do. | do. do. |
| Torrington Mews | 810 | do. | Screw-down Penstock. |
| Torrington Square | 625 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Upper Montague Mews | 530 | do. | do. do. |
| Lascelles Place | 500 | do. | Handflushingdisc. |
| Russell Mews | 700 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Denmark Place | 800 | do. | do. do. |
| New Turnstile | 600 | do. | Screw-down Pen- |
stock.
The water used in the above tanks is included in the quantity
given for sewer flushing on page 5.