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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St. Saviour's District Board of Works.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE BOARD
FOR THE YEAR 1881-82,
and
REPORTS
AP
THE MEDICAL OFFICER, ANALYST,
AND SURVEYOR;
Also Accounts in Abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure of
the Board during the same period.
Printed in accordance with, section 198 of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, (18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120,) and ordered to be
circulated among the Inhabitants of the District.
In pursuance of the provisions of the Metropolis Management
(Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act, 1879,
the Metropolitan Board of Works, in October last, issued notices
requiring this Board to execute certain Flood-works for the
protection of the district from inundations caused by the overflow
of the River Thames, as shown upon the accompanying plans and
sections; and, in compliance therewith, this Board has caused
the following public landing stairs and places under its control
to be raised to the required height—18 ft. above ordnance
datum—at an estimated cost of £144, viz.: —
Thames
Floods.
Bull Stairs. Clark's Alley.
Old Barge House Stairs. Emerson Street.
Marigold Alley. Rose Alley.
Blackfriars Bridge Wharf. Horseshoe Alley.
Pike Gardens. Bankend.
Similar notices, with plans and sections, were about the same