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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of the parish at a cost of £110. Thirteen additional
manhole covers and ventilators have been provided and
fixed at a cost of £30 8s., and 32 gullies have been
provided and fixed at the expense of the Board, at a
cost of £144. Ten manholes and ventilators, and 24
gullies, have been constructed in connection with new
roads, at the expense of the owners. A manhole with
a flushing arrangement, has been constructed at the
head of the sewer near the parish boundary in Merton
Road, at a cost of £14 18s. 10d., and the water from
the adjoining stream is periodically diverted into this
manhole for flushing the sewers. The covered sewers
have been cleansed and flushed, and the solid matter
lifted out and carted away.