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 Paddington]
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years 1850 and 1852. In connection with these
works, forty-two 6 in. pipe drains have been laid
from the new brick sewer towards the houses on the
east and west sides of the Terrace, also four gulley
drains in roadway, at a total cost of £853 4s. 7d.,
which includes the cost of destroying the defective
12 in. pipe sewer.
These works have been carried out in order to
obtain improved drainage for the houses in this
portion of the Terrace.
Fifty feet run of sewer, of a capacity of 3 ft. by
2 ft., have been constructed in Stanley Street, from
the east end of existing sewer there to the boundary
wall of St. Mary's Hospital premises, for the purpose
of draining the new wing building of the Hospital,
at an expense to the Vestry of £50 13s. 9d.,
including the cost of a manhole for ready access
to the sewer.
One hundred and fourteen feet of 12 in. pipes
have been laid, in order to divert the outlets of the
12 in. pipe sewers on the east and west sides of
Inverness Terrace, south of Inverness Place, into
the new deep sewer in Inverness Place, at a cost to
the Vestry of £90 9s. 4d.
One hundred and ten feet of 12 in. pipe sewer
have been laid from the sewer in Bravington Road