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Battersea 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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Park Road, and two the sewer in York Road. The remaining
nine were erected by the Borough Council to ventilate their
sewers situated as follows:—
Canterbury Place
High Street
Lavender Road
Meyrick Road
Patience Road
Stockdale Road
Shelgate Road
Usk Road
Wavford Street
Most of these shafts were erected in consequence of
complaints having been received of nuisance arising from sewer
ventilators on the surface of the roadway. Usually the
erection of the shaft abated the nuisance, but where this was not
the case the surface ventilator was closed.
Paving of Back-yards and Forecourts. The following table shows the number of back-yards and forecourts wholly or partly paved during 1905.
| Ward. | Back-yards. | Forecourts. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholly paved. | Partly paved. | Wholly paved. | Partly paved. | ||
| Paved as far as 12 feet or more from end of house | Paved for a lesser distance than 12 feet. | ||||
| Nine Elms | 47 | 6 | 149 | 35 | 17 |
| Park | 21 | — | 110 | 1 | 2 |
| Latchmere | 76 | 14 | 103 | 45 | 10 |
| Shaftesbury | 16 | 4 | 35 | 27 | 70 |
| Church | 25 | 5 | 164 | 51 | 24 |
| Winstanley | 37 | 3 | 122 | 13 | 11 |
| St. John's | 3 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| Bolingbroke | 10 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| Broom wood | — | 3 | 6 | — | 4 |
| Totals | 235 | 37 | 699 | 183 | 148 |