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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Survenyor's Report.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Saint James and Saint
John, Clerkcenwell.
Surveyor's Office,
Vestry Hall,
Clerkenwell,
July, 1887.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you my Report upon the
Works, &c., executed by your Vestry during the year
ending Lady-day, 1887.
SEWERS AND GULLIES.
Fifty sewers were cleansed and repaired, 1 new side
entrance cover was fixed, 21 new gullies were constructed,
257 cleansed and repaired, 7 trapped, and 4
new gully drains laid ; 13 new gully grates and 1 air
grate were fixed, and 3 flushing shafts constructed.
141 loads of deposit were removed from the sewers and
gullies.
A 12-inch pipe sewer, 140 feet long, was constructed
in Jerusalem Court, and connected with the
existing sewer in St. John Street.