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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) 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkes' Buildings | 600 | do. | do. | do. |
| Clarkes' Mews | 400 | do. | Slide penstock. | |
| Charing Cross Road | 1,100 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. | |
| Denmark Place | 800 | do. | do. | do. |
| Galen Place | 650 | 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. | |
| High Holborn | 1,450 | do. | Screw-down penstock. | |
| Hyde Street | 650 | do. | do. | do. |
| Lascelles Place | 500 | do. | Hand flushing disc. | |
| Lincoln's Inn Fields | 1,200 | do. | Screw-down penstock. | |
| Lumber Court | 730 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. | |
| Montague Mews, two tanks each | 450 | do. | do. | do. |
| Newman's Row | 1,000 | do. | do. | do. |
| Russell Mews | 700 | do. | do. | do. |
| Torrington Mews | 800 | do. | Screw-down penstock. | |
| Torrington Square | 625 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. | |
| Upper Montague Mews | 530 | do. | do. | do. |
| New Turnstile | 600 | do. | Screw-down penstock. | |
The water used in the above tanks amounted to
1,186,000 gallons.
The following sewers were flushed by water obtained
from the New River Company's mains, through leather
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