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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

Lewisham 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: NEW STREETS.The Table will give the New Streets paved and formed, or in hand, under the 105th and 106th section of the Metropolis Loca Management Act.

NEW STREETS.

The Table will give the New Streets paved and formed, or in hand, under the 105th and 106th section of the Metropolis Loca Management Act.

name of street.length in feet.estimated cost.remarks.
£s.d.
Albion Villas, Sydenham47016000In hand.
Arabin Road700100000Completed.
Berlin Street504000,,
Braxfield Road750113100,,
Collins Street38521800,,
Collins Street Passage1553600In hand.
Cross Street704400Completed.
Dallas Road47052650In hand.
Essex Street17011600Completed.
King Street100048800,,
Knowle Hill Crescent60074100,,
Merton Place1258200,,
Queen Street17016400,,
Queen Street Passage1703300,,
Regent Street16011000,,
Stansby Street33524400,,
Street out of Rosamond Street130,,
The Grove, Lewisham2702G000,,
Passage from Ewart Road to Bovill Road200Completed. 106th
Passage from Sydenham Road to Mayow Road500,, ,,
PENGE.
Evelina Road45038500Completed
Green Lane90030000,, 106th Sec.
Pawleyn Road45046200,,
Versailles Road46052000,,

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This will show that some progress is being made towards
separating surface water from sewage. I prepared and submitted
to the Sydenham and Forest Hill Committee (Min. Page 28,
Par. 25-6) a scheme for separating surface water and sewage in
parts of that division.
Upon the morning of the 11th of April, Lewisham and Lee
were visited by probably the greatest flood ever witnessed in the
neighbourhood. James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., in his valuable
quarterly paper on the meteorology of England, gives the rainfall
in the neighbourhood of London as follows:—"On the 10th day
rain fell at many places, and continued for several hours on the
11th. On these days the rainfall in the London district was very
remarkable. At Caterham, the fall in the two days was 1.6
inches; at Croydon, 2.2 inches; at Blackheath, 2 inches nearly;
at Greenwich Observatory, 2.8 inches; north of London, at
Camden Square, where the rain was heaviest, 3.23 inches; at
Muswell Hill, 2.8 inches; at Chiswick, 2.3 inches. And Mr.
G. J. Simons states that 2½ inches out of 3.23 inches fell in
12 hours." The rain guage at Forest Hill Stoneyard gave
during the night of the 10th and up to 9 o'clock a.m. on the
11th, 2.48; and the total up to 2 o'clock p.m., when it had
ceased raining, 3.02.
with such a large rainfall as I have stated, and extending