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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1873

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]

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CHRISTCHURCH PARISH.
Paviors' Work—
3,425 yards super, new Carriage-way, 4x9.
3,460 „ ,, Concrete.
1,246 ,, „ Carriage-way relaid and grouted.
134 „ cube Ballast, Blackfriars Bridge.
650 feet sua block Channel reset.
1,037 yards super, new wood Carriage-way, 4x9x5.
804 ., cube old Macadam removed.
Masons' Work—
9,000 feet super, old York relaid.
3,000 ,, ., 3 new York.
1,100 ,, run of Kerb redressed and reset.
Sanitary Works—
15 applications for House Drainage, under which
2l houses and premises have been drained.
100 feet of Sewer cleared and repaired.
4 new Gullies, and many cleared to Sewer.
The foot and carriage-way pavements have been made good
after removals and alterations of gas and water pipes, in 897
cases.
24 Licences to put up scaffolds and hoardings have been issued,
and the paving, &c. relaid and made good.
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 the water-carts.
The whole of the Macadamized Roads and Streets have been
repaired with old materials from stone-yard and other places.
THOS GREENSTREET, Surveyor.

Statement of Houses and other Premises Inspected and Improved during the Year1878.

Christchurch.St. Saviour.Total.
Houses inspected120300420
Notices issued8391174
Summonses before Magistrate112
Dustbins provided6511
Drains cleansed and drained324779
into Sewer
Drains and Privies trapped336295
and cleansed
Yards repaved3977116
Dirty Houses cleansed3977116
Water-butts cleansed121628
Urinals cleansed9413
Roofs repaired135063
Dung-heaps removed8715
Dust complaints attended to6358601,495
Slaughter-houses inspected101929
Cow-houses inspected22022
Bakehouses inspected111122