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Carshalton 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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2. The slaughterhouses (three in number), the bakehouses (seven in number), and the premises of
the registered cow-keepers, dairymen, and purveyors of milk (six in number), were inspected.
3. As to the
| In 1884 | In 1885 | In 1886 | In 1887 | In 1888 | In 1889 | In 1890 | In 1891 | In 1892 | In 1893 | In 1894 | In 1895 | In 1896 | In 1897 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The number of new buildings, and of additions to buildings, of which plans were submitted for approval under the Bye-Laws, was | 41 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 24 | 54 | 62 | 48 | 39 |
| The number of new streets, ditto, was | 3 | none | none | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | none | 4 | none | none | none | 3 | |
| The number of times that legal proceedings were taken for breach of the Bye - Laws relating to streets & buildings was | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | none | 2 | none | 3 | none | none | none |
4. Proceedings under Sees. 150 and 152 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and uuder the Private Street
Works Act, 1892. The Surveyor informs me that the number of streets (not being highways repairable
by the inhabitants at large), which were sewered, levelled, paved, metalled, flagged, channelled, or
lighted during the year, after notice to their respective frontagers, under these Acts, with a view to their
being declared to be highways, was one, as against three in 1884, two in 1886, two in 1887, four in
1888, two in 1889, four in 1890, two in 1891, three in 1892, one in 1893, none in 1894, none in 1895,
and four in 1896.
5. Proposed Cemetery. In April, at the request of Dr. Hoffman, my Deputy (Dr. Williamson)
inspected the land which the District Council proposed to acquire for the purpose of a cemetery, with
the object of determining whether any water-supplies in the neighbourhood would be likely to be
contaminated if interments took place there, and he reported that he saw no reason to think that they
would. The Council have since acquired the land.
6. As to Works of Sewerage and of Sewage Disposal. Satisfactory progress was made with the task
of laying sewers in all the populous parts of the district, and with the buildings, tanks, and other works
for the disposal of the sewage at the outfall.
The Surveyor informs me (a) that the Council have decided to lay a sewer for the use of about a dozen
dwelling houses and three mills in an isolated portion of their district, near Beddington Corner, and
have agreed with the Croydon Rural District Council as to the terms on which the latter will admit the
sewage and trade refuse into their sewers, which are close at hand, and (6) that they have agreed with the
Sutton District Council as to the terms on which they will admit the sewage from a house in Albion Road
(one frontage of which is in the Sutton District) into their system of sewers.
The Surveyor also informs me that during the year the drains of all the houses in Prince of Wales'
Road, of four houses in Duke of Edinburgh Road, and of some in Wrythe Lane, were connected with
the new sewers.
7. A systematic insjiection of houses at Carshalton-on-the-Hill, at Wandle Mount, in St. James'
Road, and Mill Lane, was made by the Sanitary Inspector, by my Deputy (Dr. Williamson) and myself
and defects of the closets, of the drainage, and of the dwellings were remedied as far as was practicable,
but there are many defects there and elsewhere, which can only be effectually dealt with when the new
sewers are ready for use.
The question of providing houses for the Working Classes, under Part III. of the Act of 1890, was
considered by the Council, but nothing was decided before the year closed.