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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

Bromley 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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Table: Sewage Pumping Station

Sewage Pumping Station

Station Plus Rising Main
3 in. Diameter67
PRIVATE STREET WORKS
Surface Water Sewer
6 in. Diameter260
SEWERAGE AUTHORITY
(a) New Sewers:
Foul Sewers
6 in. Diameter263
9 in. Diameter3,645
12 in. Diameter237
Surface Water Sewers
9 in. Diameter658
15 in. Diameter350
18 in. Diameter65
45 in. Diameter387
48 in. Diameter421
6 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in83
Sewage Pumping Station
Station Plus Rising Main
6 in. Diameter429
(b) Replacements/Diversions of Sewers:
Foul Sewers
9 in. Diameter22
Surface Water Sewers
12 in. Diameter20
15 in. Diameter22
18 in. Diameter61

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During the year 98 cesspools were abolished, the properties
being connected to main drainage.
There are now 2,101 cesspools in use in the borough.
DISINFECTION
The steam disinfection plants situated at Waldo Road,
Bromley, and Crofton Road, Orpington, were in use for the
disinfection of clothing, bedding, etc., these articles being collected
in specially constructed vehicles, from domestic premises and
hospitals. Articles likely to be damaged by submission to a steam
disinfection process were appropriately dealt with by chemical
means.