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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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which, including the hire of meters and standposts,
amounted to £460 5s. 8d. The quantity of water used
for street watering was about 7,217,410 gallons; for
flushing sewers and drains, 616.050 gallons; for repairs to
public roads, 116,160 gallons; for making up new roads,
122,980 gallons; and for urinals 723,000 gallons. The
total cost of road watering per mile was £34 11s.
of which sum £14 12s. 6d. was paid to the Water
Companies for water and hire of meters, &c.
| PARISH. | No of Notices Received. | No. of Houses. | Additions to Houses, &c. | Stabling, Warehouses, Shops and other Buildings. | No. of Churches, Chapels. Schools, and Additions to same. | Total number of Buildings. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham | 36 | 103 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 129 |
| Putney | 67 | 142 | 27 | 14 | 2 | 185 |
| Streatham | 106 | 635 | 12 | 95 | 7 | 749 |
| Tooting | 19 | 55 | 3 | 2 | .. | 60 |
| Wandsworth | 105 | 559 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 582 |
| Totals | 333 | 1494 | 62 | 132 | 17 | 1705 |