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 table gives the weekly collection of Slop, Material Carts hired, Street Watering Horses hired, and the amount of Silt removed from sewers and gullies, Horses hired and water used for flushing same.
Slop Collection and Material Carts. | Street Watering. Horses & Drivers Hired. Days. | Cleansing and Flushing Sewers. | Cleansing and Fluihing Gullies. | ||||||
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WEEK ENDING. 1896. | Slop removed. Cubic yards. | Horses & Drivers Hired. Days. | Deposit Remove 1 Cubic yds. | Horses anl Drivers Hire Days. | Water used. Loads. | Deposit Removed. Cubic yds. | Horses and Drivers, Hired. | Water used. Leads. | |
27th March | 30 | 3 | – | 4 | – | – | 8 | – | – |
3rd April | 102 | 10 | – | 4 | 2 | 29 | 6 | – | – |
10th ,, | 98 | 10½ | 4½ | 2 | 4 | 49 | 6 | – | – |
17th „ | 1521 | 12 | — | 10 | 5 | 68 | 20 | – | – |
24th „ | 106½ | 32 | 12 | 4 | 5½ | 73 | 22 | – | – |
1st May | 136½ | 12 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 79 | 22 | 2½ | 35 |
8th „ | 119¼ | 15 | 29 | 2 | 1¾ | 27 | 22 | 2 | 25 |
15th „ | 131 | 8½ | 42½ | 3 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 5½ | 60 |
22nd ,, | 135 | 9½ | 33½ | 2 | 6 | 75 | 21 | 3½ | 37 |
29th ,, | 126 | 9 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 18 | 4¾ | 54 |
5th June | 110½ | 9 | 32¾ | 10 | 5 | 58 | 22 | 4¾ | 54 |
12th „ | 156½ | 16 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 49 | 22 | 4 | 47 |
19th „ | 112½ | 11¾ | 37½ | 10 | 4 | 43 | 24 | 3 | 38 |
26th ,, | 125¾ | 14 | 35½ | 6½ | 4 | 48 | 24 | 4 | 55 |
3rd July | 115¼ | 10 | 35 | 11 | 5½ | 75 | 22 | 5¼ | 70 |
10th ,, | 125¾ | 15 | 36¼ | 3½ | 6 | 80 | 22 | 5¼ | 67 |
17th „ | 118¼ | 13 | 39½ | 2 | 6 | 82 | 22 | 5¼ | 71 |
24th „ | 118½ | 11¾ | 47½ | 12 | 6¾ | 86 | 22 | 4¼ | 51 |
31st .„ | 137¼ | 151 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 97 | 22 | 1¾ | 27 |
7th August | 106¾ | 17 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 74 | 18 | 4¾ | 74 |
14th „ | 139½ | 18 | 19½ | 10 | 5¼ | 77 | 22 | 2¾ | 36 |
21st ,, | 126 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 7¼ | 114 | 21 | 2¾ | 42 |
28th „ | 138 | 25 | ¾ | 4 | 2 | 32 | 22 | — | – |
4th Sept. | 160¼ | 26½ | 5¼ | 4 | 3¼ | 50 | 21 | ¾ | 10 |
11th „ | 138¾ | 27 | — | 12 | 3 | 36 | 20 | 3 | 38 |
18th „ | 130¼ | 21¼ | – | 11½ | — | – | 22 | – | – |