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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??? the lower part of Colney Hatch Lane, which
Would then discharge into the ditch on the Hornsey
??? of the road, and thence into a brook in the
???.
To this the Hornsey Board replied that they could
not open up the outlet without committing a
??? on private property, and that the drain in
??? was not put in by them but apparently
??? the landowners on the Clerkenwell side.
The storm-water drain, suggested by the Hornsey
Local Board for dealing with the surface water of
Colney Hatch Lane, has been constructed at the
Expense of the Yestry, but little progress has been
made in the negociations between the Hornsey
Board, the County Council, and the Yestry for the
??? of the outlying part of the Parish. Every
??? made by Hornsey has been conceded,
xcept one—that the Yestry should furnish a plan
??? wing how the drainage of the remaining part of the
??? is disposed of. Beyond the general knowledge
??? it is drained into the Tottenham system, the
Vestry has no information, and can therefore furnish
???, and the negociation with Hornsey came to a
???. The Yestry, therefore, approached
??? of the contiguous Boards—that of Friern
???, and an interview with that Board resulted
??? their agreeing to take the sewage for the period
??? 30 years at an annual charge of £100 until the
??? value of the houses amounted to £2,000,
??? 1s. in the £ on any value in excess of that sum.
The Yestry have therefore asked the County Council
??? ratify and give effect to this proposal.
Crawford Passage.—The Yestry, in September,
1889, received a letter from Mr. F. Gr. Underhay, of
???, Crawford Passage, suggesting that, if the nairow
passage by the side of the old Workhouse site were
sufficiently widened to allow of a roadway being