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 St. Saviour's]
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The Footway East side of Redcross Street, from Union Street
to Boundary South, has been repaved and made good.
The Carriage-way In New Park Street, wholly re-paved, from
Guildford Street to Chapel.
Mabons Work—
1G77 feet super. new 3 inch York squared and laid
2996 ditto old, re-laid
420 feet Granite re-laid
18 do. new 12 by 6 kerb
729 do. kerb re-set (part dressed amd re-set.)
Sanitary Works—
13 Applications for House Drainage by which 34 Houses
and Premises have been Drained.
13 Gullies repaired and altered
4 House drainages cleared
17G5 feet run of Sewer cleared and part repaired
339 feet new 9 inch pipes laid
8 Gullies cleared to Sewer
1 new Gulley
3 new Entrance Shafts
5 new Flushing Shafts
Many of the Brick Sewers and the whole of the Pipe Sewers
have been several times flushed by water direct from the river or
by water cart.
CHRISTCHURCH PARISH.
Paviers Work—
1744 yards super. Carriage-way re-laid and grouted
296 do. concrete
1196 do. super. 9 by 6 cubes laid on concrete and grouted
154 do. 9 by 4 do. do. do.
32 do. 9 by 3 do. do. do.
61 do. 10 by 10 Channel
392 do. Channel re-set
Masons Work—
12,161 feet super. new 3 inch York, squared and laid
9628 do. old York, re-laid
74 do. run new 12 by 6 kerb
3701 do part dressed and re-set.
Sanitary Works—
16 Applications for House Drainage, by which 42 Houses
and Premises have been Drained to Sewer
16 Gullies altered and repaired