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 Wimbledon]
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Slaughter
Houses.
There are now 34 of these premises in the District, nine
having been registered during the year.
The Slaughter Houses have been inspected at intervals
and found to be kept in accordance with the bye-laws.
There are only six of these premises in the District, and
none of them are much used.
The Bakehouses, 22 in number, were examined during
the year. A bakehouse in Hartfield Road, which is under
ground and liable to become flooded with sewage has been
closed, and one new one opened. They were generally found
clean and in good order.
Among the works in hand and carried out that affect the
Sanitary conditions of the. District the following may be
mentioned :—
Flood
Prevention
Works.
The construction of a 3-ft. diameter sewer, with branches
to relieve the flooding on the North side of the L. & S. W.
Railway and Hartfield Road, has been completed. The water
conveyed by this sewer will be treated on the storm water
filters at the Sewage Farm.
Private
Roads.
The following roads have been made up during the year
and declared "Highways repairable by the inhabitants at
large."
Avondale Road.
Haydon Park Road.
Trinity Road (Sec. II.)
Effra Road (Sec. I.)
Lower Downs Road.
Southdown Road (Sec. I.)
Cromwell Road.
Queen's Road (Sec. III.)
Florence Road.
York Road (Section I.)
Delamere Road.
Ethelbert Road (Sec. I.)
Contracts were entered into for making up the following
roads, which have not yet been completed.
Bakehouses.
Sanitary
Improvement