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Lewisham 1856

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham District]

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The Board entered into negociations with the Phoenix Gas Company
for lighting Blackheath, but were unable to arrange satisfactory
terms, and ultimately resolved to defer the lighting for at any
rate another year. Applications have been made to them to light
the Retreat and Hither Green, Lady-well Lane, and the Hamlet
of Penge generally; also a private road from Upper Sydenham to
Peak Hill, and other private roads in the district; but various circumstances
have conspired to prevent the extension of the lighting
beyond what has been described.
SEWERAGE.
With reference to the second branch of the jurisdiction of the
Board, the Drainage of the District, it will, perhaps, be desirable to
lay before the inhabitants a short statement of the works executed
by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers. They are as follows:—
Two main sewers, vested in the Metropolitan Board of Works,
viz., " The Ravensbourne and Sydenham Sewer" (especially for the
drainage of the Lewisliam district), commencing at Bell Green, and
extending along and by Catford Hill Road, through Rushey Green,
along the turnpike road, and turning off near Lady-well Lane
through the fields to the west of the Village, along Silver Street,
across Loampit Yale and through Mill Lane, and discharging into
Deptford Creek at Parish Wharf, near Kingsford's Mill.
In connection with this is a branch sewer up Lady-well Lane,
about as far as the Lady-well Inn.
The other main sewer, "The Ravensbourne and Lee Green
Sewer" (more especially for the drainage of Lee and Eltham), commences
in the Eltham Road near Lee Green, and proceeding along the
Lee Road, enters the Lewisham district at Lee Bridge, proceeding
along the turnpike road through Lewisham Village, and turning
off near the Railway Station, and proceeding along the Lane to,
and passing out of the Lewisham district at, the Silk Mills, proceeding
thence through Bath Place, Edgerton Road, and North Pole
Lane to a pumping station, where it discharges into Deptford Creek
a little north of the Greenwich Railway. In connection with the
latter is—
1. A sewer, commencing at a point a little south of Hither
Green Lane, and proceeding along the turnpike road through Lewisham
Village to the junction with the main sewer, nearly opposite
the Lion and Lamb Inn, with a branch up the Avenue Road.
2. Another sewer in Lewis Grove, joining the main at the
north end of the Grove.
3. A third sewer from a point a little west of the Blackheath
Railway Station, along the north side, and nearly adjoining the
railway as far as Love Lane, then crossing it and proceeding in a
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