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Rotherhithe 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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The following applications for the erection of new houses and buildings have also
been received, and plans checked and approved:
Number
of
Notices.
Number
of
Houses.
Additions
to
Houses.
Warehouses
and other
Buildings.
Total Number
of New
Buildings.
38
28
7
27
62
A further length of 136 feet of 15-inch pipe and and 268 feet of 12-inch pipe
Sewer has been continued on in Dilston-grove, Southwark Park-road, and the drains
of the houses there connected therewith, at the cost of the Owners thereof.
Lengths of 226 feet of 15-inch pipe, 470 feet of 12-inch pipe, and 80 feet of 9-inch
pipe Sewer respectively, have been laid in Rotherhithe-street at several places westward of
the Surrey Commercial Dock entrance, for the drainage of the property abutting thereon,
in order that the drainage outfalls therefrom to the River might be cut off and
abolished.
A length of 212 feet of 12-inch pipe Sewer has been laid in Southwark Park-road
from the Raymouth-road Sewer northward, in order to take the drainage of several
houses on the eastward side of Southwark Park-road, which were beyond the statutatory
distance, to a Sewer in this Parish.
A Slate Urinal of two compartments has been erected in the Right of Way or
approach to Globe-stairs, at a cost of £36.
The Vestry have contributed £77 14s. 9d., being one moiety of the expense of
erecting an Urinal of six compartments with a roof and lamp over in the centre of the
Southwark-park-road, opposite the entrance to Galleywall-road, the other moiety of
such expense being borne by the Vestry of Bermondsey; this Vestry, have also agreed
with the Vestry of Bermondsey to contribute one half the cost of the maintenance of,
and the water supply to, the said Urinal.