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 Enfield]
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Road; The Grangeway, Winchmore Hill; The
Chine, Winchmore Hill (extension); Old Park
Ridings; Armfield Road, Lancaster Road (part
of); Vera and Rosa Avenues, Winchmore Hill
Estate (parts of).
The following streets have been dealt with
under Section 150 of the Public Health Act, and
properly metalled, channelled, and paved, etc.:
—Oxford, Northampton and Clarence Roads,
Ponders End, Burleigh Road, Bush Hill Park.
Duck Lees Lane, Ponders End; Lincoln
Road, Bush Hill Park; and the road at the
corner of Baker Street and Lancaster Road have
been widened, thus effecting much needed
improvements.
During the year allotments have been provided
at Lavender Hill, Holtwhites Hill and
against Albany Park, Enfield Lock. Land has
also been purchased for allotments at Brimsdown,
Enfield Highway.
On the Winchmore Hill Estate one mile of
new streets and two miles of sewers are in
course of construction.
164 new houses have been certified as completed,
and fit for human habitation.
19 buildings of the warehouse class have
also been built.
The information re rainfall and sunshine I
have been glad to cull from the valuable records
supplied regularly to the "Enfield Observer"
by Mr. John McEwan, F. R. Met. Soc., of
"Carisbrooke," Bycullah Park.
It now only remains for me to express once