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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defective gullies then existing. One gully has been repaired in
in Wellington Road. One gully in Court Road I found broken
as also the discharge pipes. This necessitated opening completely
up, down to the sewer 30 feet deep, and building in new
pipes and surrounding them with concrete.
Disinfecting.
13. £19 13s. 0d. has been spent in disinfecting promises and
bedding, £11 l1s. 0d. of that amount having been paid to
Plumstead Parish for disinfecting bedding, etc., in their disinfecting
apparatus.
Dusting.
14. This is done by Contract for a sum of £150 per annum
by Mr. Humphrey and only two complaints have been received
during the past year.
Highways.
15. 927 Cube yards of broken granite at a cost of £768 l1s.
have been laid down during my term of office in High Street,
Eltham Road, Footscray Road, Victoria Road, and Shooter's
Hill, and rolled in with your Horse Roller. Scoring the old
surface, and carting blindings and water, being done with your
own men and horses.
16. 363 Cube yards broken flints at a cost of £161 13s. 9d.
have been laid down in Woolwich Road and Mottingham Lane
during my term of office, and rolled in with your horse roller.