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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In connection with the the Tramways extension, a portion of the
Tooting High Broadway has been paved with wood, but the work is
Street. not yet completed.
The shops at the corner of High Street are now almost
Tooting High completed, and the paving will shortly be put in
hand, and the improvement between Recovery Street
and the Heaver Estate has been completed.
Tooting High Street.
The County Council has purchased a strip of land for continuing
this improvement, and the footpath has been paved,
and the roadway made up by this Council at a cost
of £126 12s. 9d., which will be paid for by the London County
Council and charged to the Improvement Account.
The following works have been carried out by the men sent
Unemployed, by the Joint Committee on the Unemployed.
Kerbing taken up and relaid, channelling and tar-paving:—
Abbeville Road,
Brodrick Road,
Cavendish Road,
Eardley Road,
Ellison Road,
Fernlea Road,
Heath Road,
Hendham Road,
Longley Road.
Malva Road, between South Street and Denton Street,
St. Ann's Hill, east side, between "Swanmore" and
Ridgemount Road,
The Grove, between Alllarthing Lane and St. Ann's Hill,
Wandle Road.
The laying of a pipe drain in Greyhound Lane and the Improvement
of Church Lane.
The amount spent on these works up to the 31st March was
£3,613 16s. 4d. The work in Church Lane has not yet been
completed.
Upper Tooting Road,
The footpath from the new Post Office Sotting Office to the
end of Totterdown Estate has been paved (including
wood crossings) at a cost of £658 13s. 7d.