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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shed and the footpath paved with "Indurated" patent stone
paving, the work being paid for by the London County Council,
the total cost being £41 7s. gd.
The whole of the paving works have been completed, with
the exception of a few forecourts which have not
yet been acquired by the London County Council.
Tramways- Red
Lion Street,
South Street,
Garratt Lane
and Defoe Road-
The total cost of the work to date is £17,114 15s. 4d.
This road from Bellevue Road to a point within 150 feet of
West Side, was dressed with tar and coated with
granite chippings, as an experiment, at a cost of
£156 17s. 4d., or 2.54 pence per superficial yard.
Trinity Road.
The kerb has been re-laid on concrete and the granite sett
crossings repaired, at a cost of £23 15s. 9d.
Valley Road.
The kerb has been re-laid and the tar-paved footpath re-laid
on the south-west side between the Railway Bridge
and Blackwood Hall.
Weilfleid Road.
Old granite kerb has been laid on cement concrete on the
west side, at the approach to the pond opposite
Inner Park Road, at a cost of £8 4s. nd
Wimbledon
Parkside.
Two strips of land in Warple Way and Warple Road, about
56 feet by 8 feet and 51 feet by 1 foot 6 inches
respectively, given up by the owners of the new
flats recently erected in Warple Way on the west side of Warple
Road, have been added to the public way. The kerb has been set
back, the roadway in Warple Way widened from about 24 feet to
32 feet and the footpath paved with artificial paving, at a cost of
£37 4s- 11d.
Warple Way.
Negotiations are proceeding under the agreement with the
London County Council for the acquisition of the
necessary forecourts to widen the road between
Fairfield Street and the Borough Boundary. Considerable progress
has been made, and the Council has undertaken to pave the
forecourts for the London County Council, when acquired
York Road.