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Wandsworth 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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to Rastrick House on the west side of the building; in consideration
of such exchange the owners of such house have agreed to
build a new wall dividing the properties from end to end and to
build a new lavatory on the library premises in place of the old
lavatory, which will be broken into by the wall.
The refuge in Clapham Park Road has been moved about
30 feet nearer to the new buildings erected on the
site of the new improvement. The old lamp has
been replaced by a Scott-Snell lamp. The total cost of the work
was £8 1s. 10d.
Clapham Park
Road.
At All Saints' Churchyard, Wandsworth, the iron railing and
gates have been taken down, the defective ends of
the vertical bars cut out and the railing and gates
re-fixed and painted, at a cost of £51 18s. 9d.
Cemeteries.
At Putney Lower Common Cemetery a portion of the
boundary walls has been pointed and the iron railing cleaned and
painted, at a cost of £38 12s. 8d.
At Putney Vale Cemetery, wire netting has been fixed to the
iron fencing on the north, south and east sides and to the bottom
of the oak fencing on the west side to prevent rabbits from getting
into cemetery. The work was carried out by Mr. F. E. Wright,
at a cost of £43 17s. 4d. The iron railing and entrance gates
have been cleaned and painted, at a cost of £15 9s. yd.
At Wandsworth Cemetery a portion of the existing boundary
wall on the south-west side has been taken down and a new
boundary wall erected on the north side abutting on the railway.
The work was carried out by Messrs W. & C. Brown, under contract,
at a cost of £137. The 12-inch pipe sewer draining the
Prison, running across the new portion of consecrated common
interments ground, has been diverted and re-laid in the proposed
carriageway, in order that the land may be used for burials. The
cost of the work, including three new manholes, was £38 2s. 3d.
The ceilings to several of the rooms on the ground floor of the
superintendent's lodge have been cleaned and whitened, at a cost
of £4 2S. 4d.