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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1910

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

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Table: M ain S ewers M aintained by L ondon C ounty C ouncil.

M ain S ewers M aintained by L ondon C ounty C ouncil.

Size of Sewers.Stoneware Pipe Sewers.Brick Sewers.Total.
Lineal feet.Lineal feet.Lineal feet
12 in,478...478
15 in.320...320
3 ft. 3 iu. by 2 ft. 2 in....3.3053.305
3 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in....10,77510,775
4 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in....700700
4 ft. by 2 ft. 9 in....9,9209,920
4 ft....8,505 (barrel)8.505
4 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft. 9 in....3.2853,285
4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft....18,78118,781
4 ft. 6 in....4,405 (barrel)4.405
4 ft. 9 in. by 3 ft....1,8051,805
4 ft. 9 in. by 3 ft. 9 in....1,2101,210
5 ft. by 3 ft. 4 in....12,81812,818
5 ft....550 (barrel)550
5 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 6 in....4.7154.715
6 ft. by 4 ft....2.3302,330
6 ft. 3 in....265 (barrel)265
7 ft. by 4 ft. 9 in....5,1705.170
7 ft. 3 in....1,415 (barrel)1.415
7 ft. 9 in. by 5 ft. 3 in....7,13057.305
9 ft. by 6 ft....3.5883.588
798100,847101,645

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Total approximate length—19 miles, 2 furlongs, 1 yard, 2 feet.
SEWER VENTILATION.
Nineteen sewer ventilating shafts have been fixed against
sides of houses and fourteen columns erected during the year in
lieu of surface ventilators in the roads.
Two ventilating shafts in Jessica Road and Quarry Road on the
flank walls of Nos. 42 and 52, West Side, Wandsworth Common,
respectively have been taken down, and ventilating columns erected in
West Side in lieu of same. One ventilating shaft in Killarney Road
on the flank wall of No. 8, Crieff Road has been removed.