Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also
been received and plans checked and approved:
Number
of
Notices.
Number
of
Houses.
Additions
to
Houses.
Warehouses
and other
Buildings
Total Number
of New
Buildings.
41
89
6
28
123
Seventy feet of 15-inch pipe drain has been laid in lieu of an old brick drain
by the side of the houses Deptford Lower-road, formerly known as Portland-terrace,
at the cost of the applicant, and the drains of two new houses built on the site, and the
drains of two other new houses in Portland-place have been connected with the said
pipe drain.
A length of 565 feet of 15-inch pipe sewer has been laid in Dilston-grove
Southwark Park-road, and the cost thereof apportioned for payment amongst the
owners of the property in the said street.
Mr. Batten, builder, having submitted for approval plans and sections for the
drainage of proposed new roads leading out of Rotherhithe New-road, viz.: Credon
road, Cranswick-road, Ilderton-road, &c., and asked to be allowed to carry out such
drainage works under the supervision of the Surveyor of Sewers, the Vestry Resolved,
that the sewers for the said proposed new roads be put in, and the gulleys
formed at the same time, before the houses are occupied; and that Mr. Batten
be allowed to carry out the works, subject to the supervision of the Surveyor of Sewers,
and to Mr. Batten paying the charges of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The Vestry have caused iron urinals to be erected complete with drainage and
water supply, at the following sites in this parish, viz.:
An Urinal of four compartments at the entrance to Neptune Street, on the footpath
by the side of the Drill Hall ; an urinal of four compartments with a lamp on the
top, in the centre of the carriageway Rotherhithe-street, opposite the entrance to
Derrick-street and Thames-street; and an urinal of two compartments with lamp
over and screen in front, outside the footpath Rotherhithe New-road, by the stable yard
at the "Lion" P.H.