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Wandsworth 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Steam Rollers.
Steam rollers have been hired during the year
for 50 days on public roads at a cost of £62 10s.
and for 12 days on new roads at a cost of £21.
Paving New
Streets.
The following new streets have been paved
and adopted during the year, viz.:—Rookstone
Road, Bright well Crescent, Charlmont Road
(second portion), and Fountain Road; total length, five
furlongs 155 yards. The estimated cost of making up
and paving these new roads under the annual contracts
of the Board amounted to £3,579 4s. 3d., and the
materials, &c., used in the works included 11 new
gullies, 1,210 yards hard core, 2,122 yards stone gravel
and flints, 7,380 feet new kerb, 1,491 super. yards
channel and crossings, 5,571 super. yards tar-paving,
and 5,571 super. yards running and shelling.