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Miscellaneous.
Maximum height
of floods.
Hills Yard 3 ft.
Frogmore 4 ft.
Wharf Road 3 ft. 6 in.
Sudlow Road 3 ft.
Point Pleasant 3 ft.
Church Row 5 ft. 8 in. in
basement
Church Passage 2 ft.
King's Arms Yard 2 ft. 9 in.
High Street (Wandle Bridge to
Parish Church) 1 ft.
The ground floors of Eden Cottages, Buckhold Road, were
also flooded, but fortunately nobody was sleeping downstairs.
Three houses in the Embankment, Putney, two houses in Festing
Road and the Storekeeper's Cottage at the Council's Depôt in
Ashlone Road, Putney, were also flooded with about one foot
of water.
At a special meeting convened by the Mayor, the Borough
Engineer and myself were instructed to make arrangements
to collect saturated bedding and clothing, to have them dried
at the Wandsworth Baths, and to remove any insanitary conditions
arising out of the flood.
I supervised the collecting and drying of the saturated
articles, consisting mainly of bedding, mattresses and floor
coverings, from the affected houses. The Borough Engineer
supplied all the necessary transport and labour.
The Borough Engineer's staff also assisted occupiers in
pumping out the flood water from basement premises, and
several insanitary conditions found were removed.
Extensive damage was done to furniture, but it was impossible
to dry this at the Baths.
An inventory of all the articles damaged by the flood in
the affected houses was made. The Sanitary Inspectors were
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