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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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The fixing new lamps and the maintenance of existing ones has been
carried out under contract with the Vestry, by Messrs. Ungar and Co.
A list of new lamps fixed during the year, numbering 98, will be found in
Schedule V.
Openings Made by Gas and Water Companies.
TOTAL COST OF CARTAGE.
The total cost of cartage for the year, including the wages of the drivers, has been as follows.
| 1888-9. | 1889-90. | 1890-91. | 1891-92. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Scavenging | 1,510 | 0 | 0 | 1,188 | 1 | 9 | 1,104 | 17 | 6 | 1,751 | 0 | 0 |
| Cleansing Gullies | 126 | 13 | 0 | 91 | 16 | 0 | 102 | 3 | 0 | 163 | 0 | 0 |
| General Cartage | 1,271 | 7 | 9 | 825 | 2 | 9 | 1,066 | 10 | 0 | 1,298 | 10 | 0 |
| Watering Roads | 550 | 16 | 0 | 629 | 17 | 0 | 623 | 14 | 0 | 779 | 15 | 0 |
| Dusting | 1,452 | 13 | 0 | 1,965 | 12 | 3 | 1,877 | 17 | 0 | 2,373 | 0 | 0 |
| Brooms | 57 | 16 | 0 | 75 | 8 | 9 | 110 | 0 | 0 | 188 | 10 | 0 |
| Snow Scrapers, Roller, Sanding, &c. | — | — | 108 | 6 | 0 | 453 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| £4,969 | 10 | 6 | £4,775 | 17 | 6 | £4,993 | 7 | 6 | £7,007 | 1 | 0 | |
The charges made for these repairs are as follows
Macadam 2/6 per yard 2/-per yard
Gravel 1/- „
York paving 2/6 ,, 2/- „
York paving, new 9/- ,,
Concrete 15/- per cube yard ... 12/- per cube yd.
Pitching, relaid 2/6 per yard
Curb l½d. per foot
Wood paving 18/-per yard 16/-peryard
Asphalte 10/- ,,
Tar paving 4/- „ 3/-
WORKMEN EMPLOYED AND WAGES PAID.
Workmen in the employ of the Vestry during the second week in December, 1891.
Cartage Department.
| £ | s. | d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Dustmen, 334 loads, at Is. 6d. per load, including 2s. a week extra for drivers and Is. 8d. each for extra loads | 26 | 18 | 4 |
| 30 | Carmen, at 4s. 6d. per day for six days | 40 | 10 | 0 |
| 1 | Watchman, seven days, at 3s. 8d. per day | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 1 | Horsekeeper, per week | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | ditto | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1 | Stableboy | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Wheelwrights, 53 hours, at 9d | 5 | 19 | 3 |
| 1 | Painter, 53 hours, at 7d | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 1 | Farrier | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | ditto, 53 hours at 7d | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 1 | Hammerman, 6 days, at 5s. | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 62 | £85 | 15 | 1 | |
HOARDINGS.
The Vestry does not exercise the amount of control over the work of
laying out streets not taken to by the Vestry as the Act authorises. The
obligation is quite as strong on the person laying out a street, to properly
hoard in his materials, as if the work was being done in a street repairable
by the Vestry. Sec. 124, 18 and 19 Vic., cap. 120, provides that proper
piecautions shall be taken, and the directions of the Vestry complied with