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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
Rotherhithe 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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Gullies.
The gullies in the parish now number 818, being an increase of 9 during the year; they
have been regularly cleansed, two men with a horse and van being constantly employed upon
this work, which takes about six weeks to get round the Parish. 1052 cubic yards of deposit
have been removed from them during the year. A horse and cart has been engaged
flushing them out on 135£ days, using 1,763 loads or 440,750 gallons of water.
In all cases where new gullies have been inserted I have used cast iron ones,
which are double trapped and provided with an inner sludge box, which is emptied
weekly by the sweepers.
The new gullies have been inserted as follows:
Clark's Orchard 2 Burial Ground 2
Eugenia Road 1 Nolan Place 1
Dodds Place 1 Risdon Street 2
Nelldale Boad 1
Forty-seven of the existing gullies have been found with broken traps, and have had new stoneware ones inserted, surrounded with concrete, in the streets as detailed below:
| Fulford Street | 2 | Cranham Road | 1 |
| Cornick Street | 1 | Rotherhithe New Road | 1 |
| Bisdon Street | 1 | Aspinden Road | 1 |
| Ilderton Road | 1 | Manor Lane | 1 |
| Suffolk Street | 2 | Neptune Street | 1 |
| Plough Road | 1 | Dilston Grove | 2 |
| Maynard Road | 3 | Hothfield Place | 2 |
| Seven Step Alley | 1 | Gomm Road | 1 |
| Chilton Street | 1 | Neston Street | 1 |
| Clare Hall Place | 2 | Silwood Street | 2 |
| Silverlock Street | 2 | Forsyth Street | 2 |
| Westlake Road | 2 | Kinburn Street | 1 |
| Rotherhithe Street | 4 | Ainsty Street | 1 |