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Wandsworth 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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SEWERS.
In the Parish of Clapham 68 feet of new pipe
sewers, 7 manhole shafts, 4 surface ventilators, 2 iron
pipe ventilators, and 7 gullies have been constructed;
8 surface ventilators have been closed, and iron pipe
ventilators erected instead thereof; at a cost of £252.
The sewer in Pleasant Place has been relaid at a cost of
£57. The sewer in the Grove has been cleansed and
repaired at a cost of £129. In addition, £186 has
been expended in the alteration and repair of gullies
and sewers in various parts of the parish. In new
roads 6,262 feet of pipe sewers, 20 manholes, 19 surface
ventilators, and 57 new gullies have been constructed
at the cost of the owners of adjoining property.
In the Parish of Putney 400 feet of new 12 inch
and 1,000 feet of 18 inch pipe sewers, with 7 manholes
and 20 gullies in connection therewith, have been
constructed in new roads by the owners of the property
there, under the superintendence of the Board; 1,337
feet of 12 inch pipe sewers, with 7 manholes and 13
gullies, have been constructed by the Board. The 12 inch
pipe sewer in Florian Road has been taken up and relaid
to an improved inclination, with 2 new manholes and
connections to existing gullies, the cost of this work
being £197 6s. 7d. The sewer in "West Place, being
choked, has been taken up and relaid to an improved
inclination, and a new manhole built and
connections made to the drains and gullies, at a cost of
£71 13s. 5d.; 290 feet of the pipe sewer in Portsmouth
Road has been taken up and relaid, at a cost of
£55 16s. 4d.; 12 new gullies have been constructed by
the Board, at a total cost of £77 14s. 4d, also 9 new
manholes, at a cost of £130 11s. 6d., and various
alterations to manholes, gullies, and sewers carried out,
at a cost of £39 6s. The gullies, numbering 858, have