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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SURVEYOR'S REPORT.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Saint James and
Saint John, Clerhenwell.
Surveyor's Office,
Vestry Hall,
Clerkenwell,
30th October, 1890.
Gentlemen,
I beg to lay before you my Report upon the
Works, &c., executed by your Vestry during the
year ending Lady-day, 1890.
SEWERS AND GULLIES.
Sixty-five sewers were cleansed and repaired, one
new side entrance cover was fixed, 6 new gullies
were constructed, and 2 new gully drains, 501
gullies cleansed and repaired, 5 trapped, 13 new gully
grates fixed, and 3 flushing shafts constructed.
Two hundred and twenty-two loads of deposit
were removed from the sewers and gullies.
Sixty-one private drains were let off by the
Sewermen, at the expense of the Owners of the
premises upon which the drains were stopped, for
which the sum of £6 2s. 0d. was received by the
Vestry.