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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the Commercial Road, passing Bell Garden
Road to Hill Street, and along Hill Street to
High Street, Peckham, where, it is proposed
to join the present lines of Tramway by a
curved double Junction.
It is also proposed, to have a short
Junction Terminus at the rear of the Urinal
at this place where the thoroughfare is already
very narrow, and which proposal, for this
reason, I think highly objectionable.
Terminus at
rear of Urinal,
High Street,
Peckham.
From, the above double Junction, the
course of the present Tramway lines will be
used in High Street, Peckham, as far as Rye
Lane, and, at this point it is proposed to join
by a loop, the authorized line of last year to
pass up Rye Lane, which was granted subject
to the further consent of the Vestry.
User of present
Tram,
ways in High
Street, Peckham
to, and
junction with
Rye Lane
proposed
Tramway.
These proposed Tramways will be single
lines, with loops in various places, except
where the present lines of Tramways will be
utilized. They will open up a Cross Tramway
route from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe to the
Old Kent Road—following southward to a
General course