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 Camberwell]
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Vestry of St. Giles Camberwell.
The GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE beg to
present to the vestry the following report
on the various matters which have been dealt
with by them during the year ending lady-day,
1871.
" NEW ROADS."
The following list of New Roads will prove
to the Vestry that these much needed works have
received considerable attention during the past
year. Fourteen of these Roads, comprising a
length of 3,661 yards (over two miles), have been
surveyed, estimated, contracted for, and the works
executed and completed under the superintendence
of your Officers, the cost being charged to the owners
of the property abutting thereon; four others are now
in hand, and 39 additional Roads are at this time
under either survey, notice to repair, or other arrangement,
with a view to their being in like manner
proceeded with, as those before referred to, so that
the inconvenience arising from unmade Roads, so