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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
St Martin-in-the-Fields 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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In one of my fortnightly Reports, I drew your
attention to the unsanitary and bad structural condition
of the houses situated in Chymister Alley,
Bedfordbury, that they might be dealt with under
Torrens' Act, but your Vestry Clerk pointed out the
legal difficulties attending the carrying out of this project,
and as there was then a Bill in Parliament to
amend this Act, so as to give the Local Authority
greater facilities for dealing with such cases, the matter
was allowed to remain in abeyance.
Births.
Works chargeable upon the “Sewers' Rate.”
district sewerage.
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sundry repairs to and cleansing small sewers and pipe | 116 | 10 | 0 | |||
| Labour and water for flushing pipe sewers, and repairs to flushing hose | 293 | 16 | 3 | |||
| Sundry repairs to and cleansing large sewers | 44 | 13 | 2 | |||
| Repairs to and cleansing gullies | 117 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Flushing gullies with disinfectants | 224 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Examining and connecting drains to sewers | 8 | 4 | 9 | |||
| 805 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| public urinals. | ||||||
| Supply of water to urinals and rent of meter | 16 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Sundry repairs, new hose, &c. | 25 | 19 | 0 | |||
| Labour and brooms, cleansing urinals and channels | 57 | 4 | 8 | |||
| Laying drains to urinals and cleansing drains | 18 | 12 | 1 | |||
| 118 | 13 | 3 | ||||
| Carried forward | £923 | 16 | 5 | |||