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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Mary (Islington) 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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These works were carried out at private expense, the cost,
amounting to £1,661 9s. 5d. having been first deposited with the
vestry by the persons for whom the works were executed in accordance
with estimates prepared by the Surveyor.
532 houses have been re-drained at private expense the work in
connection therewith (which included the laying of 520 feet of 12 inch,
1,034 feet of 9 inch, 42,4.50 feet of 6 inch, and 17,339 feet of 4 inch
glazed stoneware pipes, the construction of 696 inspection chambers,
the fixing of 562 intercepting traps, 1,109 ventilating pipes, 602 closet
pans, and 1,997 trapped gullies) having been carried out under the
supervision of the Surveyor.
The approximate cost of this work was £13,830 1s. 6d.
DUSTING AND SLOPPING.
The following statement shows the nett cost of the collection and disposal of house refuse and road sweepings during the year:—
| Gross expenditure | £30,225 | 18 | 10 | |||
| £1,368 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Cartage, smith's and wheelwright's work in repairing tools and water vans in connection with the repair and watering of the roads | 2,621 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Cartage and disposal of sludge from sewers and gullies, and repairing tools | 677 | 7 | 2 | |||
| Work done in connection with public lamps | 5 | 7 | 6 | |||
| From the Board of Guardians, one year's rent of site of registrar's office, Liverpool Road | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 4,677 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| £25,548 | 12 | 4 | ||||
The cost for the year ending Lady-day, 1892, amounted to
£23,107 9s. 3d., or £2,441 3s. 1d. less. The increase is due not alone to
the larger quantity of house refuse collected, but to the increase in the