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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
Edmonton 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Our Engineer has prepared and printed a list of all the roads in
the district, in alphabetical order, and classified as to their condition. A
very useful booklet.
WATER SUPPLY.
At the old linoleum works of Ridley-Whitley, now being transformed
into a margarine factory, a well of 400 feet deep has been sunk into the
hard chalk. The water level is 88 feet from the surface. The well will supply
2,290 gallons an hour.
The water which the Lea Conservancy Board controls runs from Hertford
to Limehouse. They also took over the Stort navigation in 1912.