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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Cab-rank
Chestnut
Grove.
The cab-rank at Chestnut Grove has been paved with old
setts at a cost of £33 18s. 7d.
Cavendish
Road,
Improvement
All this property has now been acquired, and the works
connected with the widening will shortly be put in
hand.
Clapham
Park Road
(further
widening).
This improvement has been completed at a cost, including
land and paving works, of £3,848 18s. 6d., but against
this must be placed the value of the surplus land,
upon a part of which the new Baths are to be erected.
At Huguenot Burial Ground the boundary walls have been
Cemeteries, pointed at a cost of £7 14s. 6d.
At Putney Lower Common Cemetery the internal walls of the
chapel have been coloured and a portion of the boundary walls
pointed at a cost of £14 8s. 2d.
At Putney Vale Cemetery a portion of the Gardener's Cottage
has been underpinned and the north gable wall rendered in cement.
A new earth closet and screen has also been erected, the total cost being
£29 12S. 11d.
The footpaths at Streatham Cemetery adjoining the Mortuary
Chapel (Consecrated) have been tar-paved at a cost of £61 18s. 5d.
At Wandsworth Cemetery a sum of £121 3s. 1d. has been
expended in kerbing and channelling carriage drives. A new oak
fence 6 ft. in height, has been erected under contract by Mr. L. Gasson,
Forest Hill, between the land let to Mr. Benham and the Cemetery
at a cost of £96.
Chureh
Passage.
The kerb has been taken up and relaid on cement concrete and
the footpaths repaved with old York paving, from
High Street Wandsworth, to The Plain at a cost of
£30 9s. 3d.
Cooper's
Arms Lane.
The strip of land given up by Brandon's Brewery, Ltd., in
connection with the closing of Pepper Alley has been
added to the public way; the carriage-way between
Walker's Place and High Street, Putney, has been paved with 4-in.
by 6-in. Aberdeen granite setts, new 12-in by 8-in granite kerb has
been laid on both sides of the road, and the footpaths paved with
artificial paving, at a total cost of £479 13s. 5d.