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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Railway No. 1.
(1)—The Company shall erect girder bridges in one span across Southwark
Park Road and Raymouth Road, within the Pariah of Rotherhithe, it the
points shewn on the deposited plan, and shall line the abutments thereof
with white glazed bricks to the satisfication of the Vestry.
(2)—The Company shall not commence the construction of any of the works
mentioned in the Act, over any road, street or place under the jurisdiction
of or appertaining to the Vestry of the Pariah of Rothrrhithe, nor shall
they break up or disturb any road, street or place under the said
jurisdiction, until they shall have given twenty-one days' notice in writing
of their intention to commence the same, specifying the nature of the
work to be done, and the street intended to be broken up and disturbed,
to the Surveyor of the Rotherhithe Vestry, and left for him at his office,
plans, elevations, sections and other necessary particulars of the
construction of such works.
(3)—The Company shall repay to the Rotherhithe Vestry the coat of any
extra lamps, including the expense of lighting and maintaining the same,
which may, in the opinion of the Rotherhithe Vestry, be reasonably
necessary for lighting any road or street crossed by such widenings after
the completion thereof, and the Company shall save harmless the
Rotherhithe Vestry against all and every expense to be occasioned
thereby; and such work shall be done to the reasonable satisfaction of
the Surveyor of the Rotherhithe Vestry, at the cost, charges and
expenses in all respects of the Company.
(4)—If any dispute or difference of opinion shall arise between the Company
and the Rotherhithe Vestry touching the reasonableness of any of the
requirements of any Surveyor acting for the Rotherhithe Vestry, such
dispute or difference of opinion shall be referred to the arbitration of an
Engineer to be appointed by the Board of Trade in manner provided by
the Railway Companies Arbitration Act, 1859.
Railway No. 2.
(5)—The Company shall provide, maintain and light a means of communication
not lews then twenty feet in width from White Post Lane to Silwood
Street, nearly opposite Recnlver Road in the Parish of Saint Paul,
Deptford, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Vestry of the Parish of
Rotherhithe, in substitution of the existing footway at the rear of the
houses on the south side of the Goodson Road, which it is proposed to
abolish.
The Seal of the South Eastern Railway Company was
bereunto affixed in the presence of
(Signed) C. SHEATH,
Depety Secretary.
February 27th, 1897.
This Bill commenced in the Houses of Lords, and at the close of the ??? year was
waiting for a Select Committee to be ???.