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 Rotherhithe]
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The following applications for the erection and drainage of new houses and buildings
have also been checked and approved:
Number
of
Notices.
Number
of
Houses.
Additions
to
Houses.
Warehouses
and other
Buildings.
Total Number
of New
Buildings.
37
82
21
13
116
The Vestry have sanctioned the execution by the private owners of drainage for—
Brick
Sewer
3ft 6in.
by
2ft.4in.
18in.
pipe.
15in.
pipe.
12in.
pipe.
9in.
pipe.
6in.
pipe.
Man
Holes
Air & flushing
shafts.
Gullies.
Creedon Road and part of Rotherhithe New
Road, for 26 houses
...
220
...
...
110
80
...
1
4
Ilderton Road, for 90 houses
280
650
...
...
308
160
2
...
8
Cranswick Road 24 ,,
...
...
270
...
110
80
...
...
4
Bramcote Road 21 „
...
300
...
• • •
88
80
1
• • •
4
Delaford Road 24 „
...
...
...
270
88
80
...
1
4
Eugenia Road 90 „
(31 of which have been drained and
176ft. of 9-in. pipe executed in cross
drains)
...
...
980
...
506
130
3
1
6
Corbett's Lane for 19 houses
...
...
350
...
110
45
2
3
3
Culling Road 51 „
(28 of which have been drained and
140ft. of 9in. pipe executed in cross
drains)
...
...
530
150
242
96
2
2
6
Making a Total of
280
1170
2130
420
1562
751
10
8
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At the estimated cost of £2,207 6s. 3d. (with contingencies.)
A length of 32 feet of 15-inch pipe was laid with connection to the Metropolitan
Board's main sewer, Deptford Lower-road, for the drainage of the new street called
Culling-road, at the cost of the Leaseholder of the property.