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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" structed at the northern end of Rye Lane, as shewn
" on a plan marked C, also deposited with the Clerk of
" the Vestry (that shewn in dotted green lines not to be
" constructed without the Vestry's consent), and upon
" the undertaking of the said Tramway Company to
" open the already existing lines from "The Plough,"
" Lordship Lane, to the "Heaton Arms," Peckham
" Rye, within two months of the sealing of the consent
" of the Vestry and the Metropolitan Board of Works,
" the consent of this Vestry be given to the construction
" and opening of the Tramway through Rye Lane in
" accordance and compliance with the existing Acts of
" Parliament in that behalf."
" That the seal of the Vestry shall not be affixed to
" such resolutions, nor shall such resolutions when
" sealed be delivered out of the Vestry until the said
" Company have entered into an agreement with the
" Vestry that they the Company will when required
" by the Vestry or a Local Authority, within two years
" from the opening of the said Tramway, apply to
" Parliament for powers to acquire the land coloured
" green and blue on the said deposited plan, marked B,
" and that upon powers being granted to the Company
" to acquire such land without having to acquire other
" land from the respective owners thereof, will at their
" own expense acquire the same, or so much thereof
" as shall not have become public highway, and will,
" free of cost, convey the land so acquired to the Vestry
" of St. Giles, Camberwell, for the use of the public for
" ever."
The Company not having obtained the land to widen