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 Lee]
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16. Tarpaulin covers have been supplied to all the dustcarts
during the year.
Highways.
17 The following quantities of road material have been put
on Eltham Road, High Street, Foots Cray Road, Bexley Road,
Victoria Road, Shooters' Hill, Woolwich Road, Court Road,
Green Lane, Mottingham Road, Southwood Roads, East and
West, and North Park:—
Granite 807 cubic yards.
Basalt 941 „
Hand-picked Flints 895 „
18. The binding material used with the above was sweepings
from the flint roads, collected from time to time and
stored, and the whole was consolidated with the steam roller.
19. Under an agreement with the "Crown," the Board has
kerbed and channelled and made up the path on the East side of
Court Road, in front of the house called "New Haven," at a
cost of £49 15s. 3d., which amount has been paid by the Crown
agents.
20. 416 feet of 12" by 8" flat Guernsey kerb and 45 tons of
4" by 6" Guernsey granite pitchers, on 4 inches cement concrete,
have been laid in the Eltham Road, between "Harrowfield," and
The Avenue, to replace the old and broken Purbeck kerbing and
channelling, already there, and the path has been made good to
the new kerbing with tartopping.