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

  • St. James and St. John (Clerkenwell, London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    44 Clerkenwell Detached.—Last year's report upon this subject closed with a statement that the Vestry were again approaching the Friern Barnet Local Board, with the view to their taking the sewerage of Clerkenwell detached. That Board however raised its terms from 1s. in the £ upon eht rateable value, which it had previously provisionally agreed upon, to 1s. 6d., and the Vestry therefore did not feel that they could proceed farther in such negociations. Negociations continued at some length between the London County Council, the Hornsey Local Board, and the Vestry, and accordingly, in August, the Vestry's Surveyor reported that he had fur nished to Mr. Meade, the Engineer of the Hornsey Local Board, a plan of the outlying district on the 25-in. Ordnance Sheet, showing the positions of the roads and the surface water drains, and read the following letter, which he had received thereon:— Hornsey Local Board, Southwood Lane, Highgate, N., 3lst August, 1891. Dear Sir, Re Drainage, Clerkenwell (Detached). I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 27th inst., together with the Ordnance Sheets numbered respectively xii. 1 and xii. 5, on which are marked the approximate positions of new roads, and certain blue lines indicating the positions of drains. It will, however, be necessary to submit further information for the consideration of my Board, viz., a survey to a larger scale, say at least 44 feet to the inch, shewing the roads and the houses drained by the dual system or otherwise, also the size, depth and inclination of the sewers for the conveyance of storm water; and the size, depth, and inclination of the sewers for the reception of sewage proper, together with all manholes, gullies, ventilators, &c., in connection