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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
Wandsworth 1894
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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The details of road watering during the past year are set forth in the following tabular statement:—
| PARISH. | Length of Road Watered. | Expenditure. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By Water Company. | Horse Hire. | New Carts, Vans, and Standposts. | Water, Labour, Pumping, and Repairs to Pumps, Carts, &c. | Total Expenses. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | Y. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| *Battersea | 0 | 1 | 110 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Clapham | 0 | 186 | 666 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 629 | 9 | 2 | 1316 | 6 | 1 | |
| Putney | 21 | 3 | 196 | 253 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 421 | 13 | 7 | †680 | 16 | 6 |
| Streatham | 32 | 2 | 135 | 669 | 9 | 9 | .. | 807 | 18 | 2 | 1477 | 7 | 11 | ||
| Tooting | 4 | 5 | 215 | 102 | 14 | 6 | .. | 103 | 18 | 4 | 206 | 12 | 10 | ||
| Wandsworth | 31 | 3 | 213 | 487 | 7 | 9 | 601 | 1 | 6 | 1088 | 9 | 3 | |||
| Total | 117 | 2 | 175 | 2179 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 10 | 2564 | 0 | 9 | 4781 | 12 | 7 |
* This watering is carried out by the Parish of Clapham as a mattter of convenience
and the cost paid to the Board by the Vestry of Battersea.
† To this amount the sum of £31 4s. 9d. must be added for the work of horses
belonging to the Board, making the total watering expenses in Putney
£712 1s. 3d.
In the Parish of Clapham all the water was obtained
by meter, 3,270,000 gallons at 1s. per 1,000 gallons
from the Lambeth Water Works Company, and
4,438,000 gallons at 8½d. per 1,000 gallons from the
Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, the cost of
which, including the hire of meters and standposts,
amounted to £441 7s. 8d., being equal to £16 5s. 8d.
per mile of road watered. The total cost of road
watering amounted to £48 11s. 4d. per mile.
In the Parish of Putney, the cost of road watering
was £33 2s. 10d. per mile, of which sum £12 18s. was
paid to the water companies for the supply of water
and hire of meters. The quantity of water used during
the year was 5,177,000 gallons.