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Clerkenwell 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
Vestry Hall, Clerkenwell,
June 21th, 1867.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. JAMES AND ST. JOHN,
CLERKENWELL.
Gentlemen,
I beg respectfully to submit the following Report
for the year ending Lady-day, 1867:—
SEWAGE AND SANITARY WORKS.
During the period 350 feet of 12-inch pipe sewer have
been laid down in Winchester Street, 200 feet of 12-inch pipe
sewer in Little Northampton Street, 141 feet of 9-inch pipe
sewer in Mulberry Place.
6 sewers have been repaired, and 22 cleansed.
4 new gullies have been constructed, 13 trapped, 10 repaired,
and 310 cleansed.
50 house drains have been laid down, comprising 2
12-inch, 10 9-inch, and 38 6-inch, while 63 houses have
been drained.
38 cesspools have been destroyed, and waterclosets substituted
for them.
182 loads of soil have been taken out and removed from
the sewers and gullies. And
1 new urinal has been erected in Penton Street.