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Rotherhithe 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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The above delegates attended the Bermondsey Vestry, who promised to give the matter
their consideration, and on 2nd April, 1895, a letter was read from the Bermondsey Vestry,
stating that the Sanitary and Public Health Committee of that Vestry desired to hold a
Conference with a Sub-Committee of this Vestry's Sanitary Committee upon the subject,
when it was
Resolved—That the above gentlemen form the Sub-Committee to confer with the
Sanitary and Public Health Committee of the Vestry of Bermondsey.
On the 19th November, the following Report was submitted to the Vestry
The Committee appointed by the Vestry to confer with a Sub-Committee of
the Sanitary and Public Health Committee of the Vestry of Bermondsey, with
reference to the question of the mutual construction and maintenance of an
underground convenience for men and women on the old Millpond site, in lieu of
the present urinal in Southwark Park Road, near the "Queen Charlotte "p.h., report
having met the Sub-Committee of the Sanitary and Public Health Committee of
the Vestry of Bermondsey on three separate occasions, and having visited the site
of the present urinal in Southwark Park Road, opposite the "Queen Charlotte" p.h.,
and also the site in Galleywall Road, opposite the "John Bull" p.h., at the
junction of Galleywall Road and Southwark Park Road, and after consideration
referred the matter to their respective Surveyors, with instructions to each to
prepare a plan of a Sanitary Convenience for men and women, to be constructed on
the sites before-mentioned, viz. :—
The Rotherhithe Surveyor to prepare a plan of a Sanitary Convenience to be
constructed in Southwark Park Road, in the centre of the roadway, opposite the
Queen Charlotte" p.h., showing the footway opposite set back to a distance of
350 ft., varying in width from 6 to 11 ft.
The Bermondsey Surveyor to prepare a plan of a Sanitary Convenience to be
constructed in Galleywall Road, opposite the "John Bull" p.h., at the junction of
Galleywall Road and Southwark Park Road;