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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

Hammersmith 1905

Sixth annual report year ended 31st March 1906

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I am of opinion that if the Local Authority had power to
compel owners of property, when building, to erect outlet
shafts, and there were a sufficient number of them provided in
convenient situations, the sewers in the district would be
properly ventilated.

Table: The sewers in the following roads have been re-laid, or partly re-laid, during the year, at the cost shewn:—

The sewers in the following roads have been re-laid, or partly re-laid, during the year, at the cost shewn:—

£s.d.
Ashchurch Terrace5634
Anley Road4448
Banim Street2640
Hampshire Hog Lane16181
Stowe Road25211
Wingate Road1533
Wellesley Avenue and Wingate road79135

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GULLIES.
Five additional stoneware gullies have been fixed
and the connections made to the sewers in the various
new streets taken to by the Council. Twenty-seven
have been fixed by the Council's workmen in different
roads in the Borough where new channel has been laid,
and also where it has been found difficult to drain the
water when re-laying the channelling.
The gullies are cleansed regularly in the summer
once every month and flushed with water, and in winter
once every six weeks. Three horses and carts, with
men, have been employed 307 days removing 2,617
loads of soil. In dry weather during the summer two
water carts are employed filling the gullies with water
mixed with disinfectant.
MANHOLES.
Fifteen new manholes have been built, and two new
ones have been built in the new streets taken to by the
Council. Twenty-seven sheet-iron plates have been
fixed under manhole covers from time to time where
complaints have been received as to sewer emanations.