Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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it, it was found necessary to close pile the toe of the
wall. This has now been completed at a cost of £919
10s. 9d.
The High Street is now paved with creosoted wood
blocks. The total cost of this work including cartage
of surplus material, alteration to kerb, crossings, &c.,
amounted to £3,519 1s. 0d.
The various paving works carried out during the past
year, exclusive of new roads and the alterations in High
Street, amounted to a total cost of £812 3s. 11d. and are
distributed as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d
New 3" tar-paving, High Street, Roehampton 3 6 8
New York paving, High Street 130 16 3
New kerb and channel, Upper Richmond Road East 52 12 5
Reset kerb and channel do. do. 64 8 4
New 3" tar-paving, Quill Bridge 2 10 4
Ee-topping tar-paving, St. John's Road East 97 8 4
Reset kerb in Portsmouth Road 6 1 10
New kerb, channel, Victoria paving on west side of
Putney Hill 300 0 0
Private works, gas and water trenches, and various
small repairs 154 19 9
£812 3 11
The quantity of materials used in the above works is
as follows, viz.:—620 square yards of 2" Victoria stonepaving;
1,480 square yards of crossings and channels
relaid; 218 square yards of 3 tar-paving; 1,009 square
yards York paving relaid; 906 feet run new 12" x 8" kerb;
32 feet run 12 x 6 kerb; 2,092 feet run granite kerb
reset and jointed; 146 square yards new 2½" York, silex
brand; 18 square yards of 3" York; 149 square yards
2^ York and 50 square yards of new blue bricks.