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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
Clerkenwell 1896
Forty-first annual report of the Vestry of the Parish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell for the year 1896-97
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Bowling Green Lane was relaid, and a manhole
constructed.
About 160 feet of 9-in pipe sewer was laid from
the sewer in St. John Street Road to No 7 Field
Place.
About 110 feet of 9-in pipe sewer was laid
from sewer in Northampton Road under Mortuary
premises to Fletcher's Row.
About 130 feet 12-in pipe sewer in Bishop's Court
was relaid.
About 30 feet 9-in pipe sewer in Spencer Street
rear of No. 48 was laid.
The whole of the pipe sewers in the Parish were
flushed by water supplied by the New River Company,
and the brick sewers, where practicable, by
water from the main sewers being turned through
them by means of flushing gates, fixed in the
sewers for that purpose.
The following table, shows the lengths of various sewers in Clerkenwell:—
| 1,371 | feet run 9 inch pipe sewers. |
| 12,681 | „ 12 „ „ |
| 870 | „ 15 „ „ |
| 2,060 | „ 18 „ „ |
| 370 | ,, 15 „ brick barrel sewers. |
| 1,962 | „ 18 „ „ |
| 3,676 | „ 2 feet „ „ |
| 240 | „ 2 ft. 6 in. „ „ |