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, Metropolitan Borough]
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between the Limes estate and Tooting Grove; this will
widen the roadway between these points to a width of
60 feet
Mitcham Road.
In front of the new shops between Rookstone
.
Road and Mellison Road new kerb channelling
and artificial paving has been laid, the owner having
given up a strip of land for the purpose of widening the
road. The cost of the work was £119 12s. 11d.
Mitcham Road.
The refuge at the junction of Church Lane
has been paved with artificial stone, and the
kerb re-laid at a cost of £22 lis. 6d.
Artificial stone paving has been laid at the
Broadway.
Artificial stone paving has been laid at the
refuge in lieu of the old tar-paving, and the
kerb re-laid at a cost of £8 14s. 2d.
Mitcham Road between Glassford street Bridge cottages,
The owners having given up a strip of land
the road a portion of new kerb
channel and artificial stone-paving has been
laid at a cost, up to the present time, of £112 16s. 4d.
Repairs have been effected to the paving, kerbing,
crossings, channels, wood-paving, and tar-paving in various
parts of the parish at a cost of £201 18s.
The materials used in the above works were 982
yaras artificial stone paving, 419 yards tarpaving, 538
yards seconds tarpaving, 792 yards re-topping, 260 feet
kerb, 1,000 wood blocks, 24 yards ballast, 6 yards sand,
4 tons cement, 15 bushels lime, 40 yards hard core, and
196 feet block channelling. About 5,640 feet of old stone
and brick paving, stone pitching, and wood paving have
been taken up and re-laid.