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 Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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CONTINUATION TO LADY-DAY, 1874.
Question.—No. l.—Total length
of new Sewers constructed
from 1st January, 1856, to
25th March, 1874 ?
A.—9594 feet, or 1 mile, 6 furlongs,
118 yards
Total Cost of same ?
£2899 8 6
Q— No. 2.—Total cost of any
other Sanitary Works
executed by the Vestry or
District Board ?
A.—£17871 2 3
Memo.—Disinfecting Oven. Ill addition to the above a New
Disinfecting Oven has been erected at a cost of £110, besides £20 per
annum rent of promises for its use. But this is now discontinued,
the Ground Landlord having prohibited its use.
A Mortuary to which the bodies of the dead could bo removed
from among the crowded poor, and where post-mortems may be conducted,
which was found to be much needed, was provided in 1866 at
a cost of £180, but in 1874 the Mortuary was removed, the London
School Board having purchased the ground on which it stood for
School purposes.