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St Giles (Camden) 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Cleansing Sewers.
Certain of the sewers in the District which have dead ends, or in which the flow of sewage is not sufficient to enable the sewer to be self-cleansing1, are fitted with flushing tanks. They are as follows :—
| Situation | Capacity of Tank | Flushing apparatus in use | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Yard | 450 gallons. | Automatic self-acting syphon. | |
| Clarkes Buildings | 600 | do. | do. do. |
| Clarices Mews | 400 | do. | Slide penstock. |
| Charing Cross Road | 1,100 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Denmark Place | 800 | do. | do. do. |
| Galen Place | 650 | do. | do. do. |
| Great Turnstile | 830 | do. | do. do. |
| Halls Yard | 400 | do. | Screw-down penstock. |
| Henrietta Mews | 600 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon |
| High Hoi born | 1,450 | do. | Screw-down p°u- |
| stocks. | |||
| Hyde Street | 650 | do. | do. dn. |
| Lascelles Place | 500 | do. | Hand flushingdisc. |
| Lincolns Inn Fields | 1,200 | do. | Screw-down penstock. |
| Lumber Court | 730 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Montague Mews, two tanks each | 450 | do. | do. do. |
| Newmans Row | 1,000 | do | do. do. |
| Russell Mews | 700 | do | do. do. |
| Torrington Mews | 800 | do | Screw-down penstock. |
| Torrington Square | 625 | do. | Automatic self-acting syphon. |
| Upper Montague Mews | 530 | do. | do. do. |
| New Turnstile | 600 | do. | Screw-down penstock. |
The water used at the above tanks amounted to
1,419,000 gallons.