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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
PARISH OF WANDSWORTH. (Continued).
Name of Road.
Remarks
16, South Street Pump not in use.
Colour Works, South Street Well in yard not used. Proprietors
are thinking. Water used for
boilers, mixing colours, waterclosets,
colouring apparatus.
Company's water laid on.
Summers town, Factory Lane, The Water laid on from main.
Cottages
Collamore, Wandsworth Common Water not now used at all.
Burntwood Lodge, ,, „ Company's water now used.
Burntwood Grange, „ , Company now supply water for all
purposes.
96, North Side, ,, „ Supplies water for garden and washing
purposes only. Company's water
used for drinking purposes.
Young's Brewery, High Street Artesian Well.
Public Baths „ ,, „ „
Ebner Street Pump used for washing carts.
Housing of the Working Classes.
The following report of the Public Health Committee on
this subject was, after careful consideration, presented to the
Council and adopted on the 1st October, 1902:—
REPORT OF PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
The Committee in their last report to the Council on the 7th November,
1901, advised that a definite report upon the possibilities of utilising three
selected sites for buildings in the style of the Guinness Trust Buildings should
be obtained from the Architects to the Trust. Three sites were chosen as being
the central positions in the immediate neighbourhood of working class
dwellings, and where such dwellings as were proposed would be likely to be
much in demand, and appeared to be most required.
A sum of £45 was voted by the Council for the reports.
The Committee decided to commence by obtaining reports on two sites
only, viz.:—Rectory Grove, Clapham, and Hills Yard, Wandsworth Plain, as
being the two where such dwellings were most urgently, if anywhere, required
in the Borough, and the sum of £30 only has been expended.
The reports were as follows, viz. :—