Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report 1893-94
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Road, near Lee Green, to the Eltham Road in the respective
parishes of Kidbrook and Eltham, (one third being within
Kidbrook Liberty), has been laid out and formed by and at the
expense of the Cator Estate, the communication over the
Quaggy being provided by a brick and iron girder bridge, also
at the expense of the said estate.
8. Applications and plans for laying out a new road in
extension of Kidbrook Park Road, Kidbrook, and being connected
with Weigall Road, Eltham Road, have been received from
Messrs. D. Smith, Son, and Oakley, upon behalf of Earl
St. Germans, and approved by the Board and the London
County Council respectively, such new road being about l¼
miles in length, and 50 feet wide; also for laying down in this
new road 1620 feet of 15-inch stoneware pipe sewer, 4114 feet
run of 12-inch pipe sewer, 130 feet of iron pipe under the new
Bexley Heath Railway now in course of construction, all such
sewers being embedded in concrete, and to be carried out to the
satisfaction of the Lee District Board's Surveyor ; these sewers
also having received the sanction of the London Connty Council
and the Board, and this road opening up direct communication
between the Parishes of Eltham and Kidbrook, and intersecting
the said new line of railway at the site of the proposed new
railway station, may be deemed on improvement of a most
important nature.
9. The existing trees in the varions roads have been
properly pruned and re-tied, and the dead ones replaced where
necessary ; the guards also being repaired where needed from
time to time.
10. The dust collecting has been carried out by the Board's
horses. carts, and men, assisted as needed by horses and men