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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

Clerkenwell 1859

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St James & St John]

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Table: SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS.NEW SEWERS CONSTRUCTED.Little Sutton Street 440 feet run of 3-94-2-6 whole brick

SANITARY IMPROVEMENTS.

NEW SEWERS CONSTRUCTED.

Little Sutton Street 440 feet run of 3-94-2-6 whole brick

,, ,, ,,240„„2J feet brick barrel
Berry Street185,,3-94-2-6 whole brick
Allen Street155,,,,3-9+2-6 „ „
,, ,,355,,,,2 J- feet brick barrel
Clark Street190,,,,„ „ „
Hooper Street170,,,,„ „ „
An intended Street 1 St. John St. RoadJ 240,,,,12-inch pipe
Chapel Row180,,,,12-inch „
Goswell Road66,,,,9-inch „
Rosoman Mews136,,,,12-inch „
Caroline Place100,,,,12-inch ,,

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The Sewer Works done in the first five streets, being for (he improvement
of the Charterhouse Estate, were undertaken and carried
out by the Vestry by arrangement, that Corporation paying the costs
(see balance sheet).
Those constructed in " an intended Street, St. John Street Road,"
were also done by the owner of that property at his own cost.

Table: DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.

DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.

Houses drained125
9-inch drains laid13
6-inch „ „88
Cesspools destroyed without Notices served90
Do. do. with do. do.61
Sewers cleansed29
„repaired4
Gullies cleansed307
,, repaired .23
„trapped9
Airshafts built2
New Gullies .17
New side entrances to Sewers.3