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Bermondsey 1902

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1902

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Houses Let in Lodgings.
Owing to the want of system in the inspection of the above, the Public Health Committee
decided that they should be visited by the district inspectors once a quarter and a list of the
visits supplied to the Committee. They are thus regularly visited, and none can escape proper
attention. It has not been necessary to take legal proceedings in any case. The following is a
list of those on the Register:—
Street.
Aberdour Street 5
Arnold's Place 1
Abbey Street 5
Bermondsey Street 4
Bermondsey Wa11 2
Bell Court 6
Bermondsey New Road 1
Curlew Street 2
Cloyne Row 1
Crosby Bow 1
Debnam's Row 3
Decima Street 2
East Lane 2
Emba Street 2
Enid Street 1
Elim Street 9
Freda Street 1
Flockton Street 1
Foxlow Street 2
Faustin Place 3
Fendall Street 1
Ferrand Street 2
Fulford Street 2
Gedling Street 2
Grange Walk 5
Green Walk 1
Street.
Gainsford Street 1
Hatteraick Street 1
Kenning Street 3
Kipling Street 2
Lamb Alley 3
Larnaca Street 2
Leroy Street ... ... 9
Litlington Street 1
London Street 0
Lafone Street 1
Long Lane 1
Lower Road 1
Maze Pond 8
Morris Court 6
Manor Lane 1
Marigold Street 3
Marshall's Place 2
Maynard Road 1
Mellicks Place 5
Marcia Road 2
Oldfield Road 2
Osborne Buildings 1
Paulin Street 1
Porlock Place 3
Pages Walk 1
Street.
Parkers Buildings 4
Reed Street 1
Riley Street 1
Rotherhithe Street 1
St. Helena Road 1
St. Marychurch Street 2
Suffolk Street 2
Snowsfields 1
Salisbury Place 6
Salisbury Street 9
Tanner Street 1
Trident Street 2
Turner's Retreat 1
The Grange 2
Yauban Street 2
West Lane 6
Westlake Road 2
Weston Street 3
Wilds Rents 1
Woods Place 5
Woolf Street 2
Warford Place 2
William Square 1
Total 206
Section 48, Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Certificates were granted to the following places for a proper and sufficient water
supply:—
19, 21, 23, Pages Walk.
"Dundee Arms," Artillery Street.
1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, Brandon's Almshouses, Somerset Place.
246, Botherhithe Street.
South Wharf (new houses).
Lower Road (two houses belonging to Surrey Commercial Dock Company).
Riley Street School (Caretaker's House).
Nurses' Institution and house adjoining.
Model Dwellings, Swan Lane.
Two Houses in Farncombe Street.
Vine Street Buildings (new addition).
64, Marigold Street.
Presbytery, Paradise Street.
Caretaker's House, Union Church, Horselydown.
"Bunch of Grapes," Curlew Street.
Cowhouses.
The following is a list of the cowhouses, with the number of cows kept in each. In the
third column will be found the results of inspections in 1902. The cowhouses were kept under
constant supervision, and regularly visited. No difficulty was found in having these requirements
carried out.
Defects remedied.
No. of
Cows.
Address.
53, Southwark Park Road
14
Accumulation of manure removed.
32-34, Cherry Garden Street
7
-
33, Clarks Orchard
5
Fowls removed from cowshed. Water trough repaired.
Water supply to trough improved. Zinc on walls
repaired.
63, Jamaica Road
8
Accumulation of manure removed.
28, Arnolds Place
4
Cattle trough cleansed. Channel in cowshed repaired.
Gutters to cowshed repaired.
1, Abbeyfield Road
10
-
56, St. Marychurch Street
2
Yard paving repaired. Floor of cowshed repaired.
Accumulation of manure removed.
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