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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TREES.
A considerable number of the trees planted by
the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association on
Clerkenwell Green and in Penton Street died, and
the number of new trees planted in the Parish to
replace the dead ones was 48.
Jerusalem Passage.—Complaints having been
made to the Vestry of the nuisance caused by
barrows and trucks passing through this passage,
the Vestry decided to fix fall-down posts at each
end of same.
Albion Place.—Upon the application of the
inhabitants of this place posts were also fixed here
for a similar purpose.
CHALET—CLERKENWELL ROAD.
The Chalet Company being in liquidation this
Chalet was closed, and became a nuisance to the
public. Notice was therefore served upon the
Official Liquidator to remove the same, which notice
was not complied with, and the Chalet was
eventually removed by the Vestry, and a refuge
formed round the lamp already erected on the spot.
BROAD YARD.
Application was made to the Vestry by the
occupiers of the warehouses in this Court to erect
gates at the entrance, which should be closed at
night to prevent nuisances, and as a protection to