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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Two new wood crossings have been laid in Sunnyhill
road and wellfield Road at a cost of £20 15s. 7d.
On the cast side of Streatham High Road the footway
has been overhauled and thoroughly repaired from the
Almshouses to No. 195, new Victoria stone having
been laid in substitution of the old tar paving at a cost
of £169 l4s. l0d.
In the Upper Tooting Road at the corner of Trinity
Road in front of the new "Wheatsheaf," the carriage
way has been widened and the footway paved with
Victoria Stone at a cost of £51 5s. 4d.
The improvement of Dragmire Lane is now completed;
the cost during the past year amounted to
£1 7s. Od.
In the Balham High Road, in front of Mr. Beare's
new shops on the west side, a strip of ground has been
given up for widening the footpath; the paving thereof
has been commenced, the cost during the year being
£2 8s. lOd.
In Chestnut Grove the improvement commenced last
year has been completed, the cost for the year being
£5 l7S. 1d.
On the south side of Bedford Hill, in front of Mr.
Heaver's new houses, a strip of land has been given up
for the improvement of the road, and the footpath has
been tar paved, at a cost up to the present of
£103 10s. 8d.
The Board have purchased some land on the southwest
side of Wellfield Road for the purpose of improving
the narrow portion of the road in front of Mr. Russell's
shop; the cost of the improvement, including paving,
was £267 10s. l1d.