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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

Lewisham 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: The following Table will show the improvements carried out liming the year, also those projected but not carried out.

The following Table will show the improvements carried out liming the year, also those projected but not carried out.

IMPROVEMENT.remarks.
LEWISHAM.
New Road near Forest Hill StationRoad made.
Park End Foot BridgeCompleted.
Road Improvement in Granville ParkCompleted.
Widening Road near Clark's Lane, Perry HillCompleted.
Ditto ditto near Rutland Tavern, Perry HillCompleted.
Widening Brockley Lane to fifty feet along Brockley Hurst BrickfieldCompleted so far.
Continuation of this Improvement to the Brockley Jack P.II.Adjourned until next year.
Widening South End LaneDitto ditto.
Widening Road near Wynell Road, Perry ValeIn hand.
Sydenham Green Improvement, and widening Railway BridgeDitto ditto
Raising Road near Ladywell Railway StationIn hand.
Park Road, Dartmouth Park (corner of)Ditto.
PENGE.
Improvement near Crooked BilletCompleted.
Widening Railway Bridge near Hamlet TerraceIn hand.
Road Improvement, near Railway Bridges, Dulwich Road, PengeCompleted.

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by the Board to be built and drained, also the number of gullies,
ventilating shafts and man-holes constructed during the year:-
Locality.
Length
Feet run.
Size
in inches.
Remarks.
Lewisham.
New Road out of Drysdale Road,
409
12
Completed.
Church. Road, Dartmouth Park,
848
12
Ditto.
Montem Road, Stanstcad Lane
250
15
Ditto.
Penge.
New Road leading out of Croydon
Road
912
15
Ditto.
Whcathill and Thornsett Roads
1994
12
The following
Table will give sewers projected during the year and have not
been carried out:—
Locality.
Length.
Size.
Remarks.
Extension of Sower from Lewisham
Cemetery Gates through Ivy Lane
to the boundary with Deptford
2873
3-ft. by 2-ft.
Brick
Sewer
Extension of Sewer from West Hill
along Sydenham Hill
850
15-in. pipe
Abandoned for the
present.
Extension of Sower from Coomb
Road northward in the valley
line
78
2-ft.
barrel
The following Tables show the number of houses sanctioned
The Bromley Board of Guardians constructed 2,130 feet run
of 3 feet by 2 feet egg-shaped sewer under the Beckenham
Sewerage Act, part of which is in the Lewisham District, consent
having been given by the Lewisham District Board and also by
the Metropolitan Board for its construction.