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Clerkenwell 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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12 ft. run 9-inch, and 84 ft. run 6-inch pipe sewer
was laid in Red Lion Street rear of No. 8, and
adjoining premises.
102 ft. run 12-inch pipe sewer, with manhole, was
laid in Clerkenwell Road.
100 ft. run 12-inch pipe sewer, 30 ft. run 9-inch,
62 ft. run 6-inch pipe sewer were laid in Mount
Pleasant.
42 ft. run 6-inch pipe sewer with 16 ft. run 4-inch
pipe, to connect with ventilating shaft, was laid
in King's Cross Road by Union Tavern.
The whole of the pipe sewers in the parish were
flushed by water supplied by the New River Company,
and the brick sewers, where practicable, by
water from the main sewers being turned through
them by means of flushing gates fixed in the sewers
for that purpose.
The following table shows the length of various
sewers in Clerkenwell:—
238 feet run 6 inch pipe sewers
2,306 „ 9 „
11,733 „ 12 „
870 „ 15 ,,
2,060 „ 18 „
176 ,; 15 ,, brick barrel sewers
1,962 „ 18 „
3,576 „ 2 feet
240 ,, 2 ft. 6 in. ,, ,,