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St Giles (Camberwell) 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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WATERING ROADS.
The length of roads watered last year was 39
miles; this season it has been increased to 48 miles,
making nine miles extra.
IMPROVEMENTS.
globe bridge.
The expectation expressed in the last report, that
this proposed re-building " would have been completed
before the winter," has not been realised,
through the failure of the Contractor to produce
efficient sureties. Through this circumstance your
Committee considered it prudent to defer the work
until the following spring, and has now the
satisfaction to report that it has been re-let, and is
now in hand.
STREET NOMENCLATURE.
ee-naming and re-numbering.
Gratton-road (now Tilson-road), Camden-grove
North, has been re-named and re-numbered.