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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Clerkenwell 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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Surveyor's Report.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Saint James and
Saint John, Clerkenwell.
Surveyor's Office,
Vestry Hall,
Clerkenwell,
3rd June, 1886.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you ray Report upon the
Works, &c., executed by your Yestry during the year
ending Lady-day, 1886.
SEWERS AND GULLIES.
Forty-nine Sewers were cleansed and repaired, two
new side entrance covers were fixed, ten new gullies
constructed, 245 cleansed and repaired, six trapped,
five new gully grates fixed and four flushing shafts
constructed.
Ninety-six loads of deposit were removed from the
sewers and gullies.