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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12-inch by 6-inch kerbing, 250 tons 4-inch by 6-inch
granite setts, 453 tons Scoriae block channelling, 1,238
super. yards 2½-inch York paving, 1,038 super. yards
2-inch Victoria stone, 169 super. yards 2¼-inch Non-slip
York paving, 280 super. yards blue panel brick paving
for carriage entrances, 10,387 super. yards tar paving,
396 cubic yards hard core, 969 cubic yards Thames
ballast, 1,291 cubic yards flints, and 30 cubic yards
gravel.
Repairs. following paving materials have been
used in public roads during the year, viz.:—
Granite kerbing (12-inch by 8-inch) 8,753-ft., 2-inches.
Do. (12-inch by 6-inch) 1,312-ft., 4 „
Granite sett channelling 280-tons., 15-cwt.
Scoriae brick do. 205 „ 5-cwt.
York Paving do. 1,559 super yards.
Non-slip hard York patent paving 562 „
Blue bricks (8 panel) 677 „
Tar-paving 5,718 „
Topping 3,011 „
Coating existing tar-paving with tar
and grit 18,817 „
The following are the principal works completed or
in hand during the year, viz.:—
East Hill The remainder of the strip of land referred
to in last year's report between Wood well
Road and No. 35, has been paved with York paving at
a cost of £46 4s. 6d. The footpath on the south side,
between the east side of No. 79 and Melody Road, has been
paved with Non-slip York paving at a cost of £66 19s.
Huguenot Place. About 336 super, yards of 2¼-inch hard
York (non-slip) patent paving have been
laid at Huguenot Place and along Wandsworth Common
West Side, to the south side of "Jasmine," at a cost of
£109 5s. 5d.
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