Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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£ | s. | d. | |
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Brought forward | 87 | 2 | 0 |
Putney Bridge Road, on north side, between Merivale Road and Florian Road, laying kerb and channel, and laying Adamant paving and channel on south side opposite Oxford Terrace | 112 | 13 | 10 |
Putney Hill, relaying channel and kerb | 13 | 0 | 4 |
Eleven crossings in Gardeners Lane and Lower Richmond Road, using old materials | 55 | 11 | 3 |
Private works, gas and water trenches, and various small w orks and repairs | 353 | 17 | 3 |
£622 | 4 | 8 |
The quantity of materials used in the above works was
as follows, viz.:—581^ yards super, tar-paving; 154 yards
super, patent Adamant stone paving; 451 feet run new
12-inch by 8-inch Norway granite kerb on concrete; 72
tons new 6-inch by 3-inch Norway granite setts on
concrete; 5 tons 9-inch by 4-inch by 5-inch Tees Scoriae
setts on concrete; 3 tons 5-inch by 7-inch dressed granite
setts on concrete; 30 tons old granite setts and cubes on
concrete; and 4 cubic yards topping for tar-paving.
At the parish wharf during the past 'year a close
boarded fence has been fixed at the western boundary,
and an oak pale fence on the boundary of the old dust
shoot, the cost of which was £81 12s. 5d. Gas has been
laid on to the engine shed, and to a new lamp which has
been fixed by the dust shoots, at a cost of £14 15s. 2d.
Various small works have also been carried out, including
finishing the surface of the wharf, at a cost of £23 2s. 2d.
The total cost of work carried out at the wharf during the
past year is £119 9s. 9d.
The steam roller has been worked 161½ days, 26½ of
which were for new roads and 19¾ for private works.