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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Heslop Road.
Balham Park Road (from the centre of Heslop Road to the passage
from Balham Park Road to the London, Brighton and South
Coast Railway).
Passage from Balham Park Road to the London, Brighton and
South Coast Railway).
Ravenslea Road (from a point where the Metropolitan Borough
boundary enters the road near Gosberton Road to Nightingale
Lane).
Nightingale Lane (from Ravenslea Road to a point midway
between Endlesham Road and Ramsden Road).
Lavender Hill (from Wix's Lane to Queen's Road).
Queen's Road (from Lavender Hill to Robertson Street).
Robertson Street (from Queen's Road to the centre of Montefiore
Street).
Chalmers Street (from the centre of Crichton Street to Gonsalva
Road).
Gonsalva Road (from Chalmers Street to Portslade Road).
89.—The Order made in 1889 relating to the maintenance of John
Street, a road on the boundary of the Parishes of Wandsworth and
Battersea, has been rescinded, the street being dealt with in the
new Order. The Order respecting the roads on the boundary of
the Boroughs of Wandsworth and Lambeth has been settled and
will be issued shortly.
Breaking up of
Streets.
90.—The Council has had under consideration the proposal
by the London County Council that a representation
should be made to the Government as to
the necessity for legislation to confer upon the County Council
powers to make bye-laws or regulations, and to enforce compliance
therewith, as to the manner in which companies and others having
statutory rights to break open the public thoroughfares, shall
exercise such rights, the time at which such works shall be commenced,
and the period within which they shall be completed and
the surface of the roads re-instated ; also to compel such companies
to move their pipes or wires into any subways constructed by the
County Council. The Council approved of the proposal to
empower the County Council to make bye-laws or regulations as
to the matters referred to, but was of opinion that such bye-laws
should be administered by the City or Borough Councils, and that
the Board of Trade should be constituted the Appeal Authority in