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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

Paddington 1870

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: Sewers in the undermentioned Streets and Places have been constructed by the Owners of Property at their expense, viz.:—

Sewers in the undermentioned Streets and Places have been constructed by the Owners of Property at their expense, viz.:—

feet. ft. in. ft. in.
Shirland Road,between Saltrun Crescent and the Western boundary of the Parish1580 run of 3.9 by 2.6 whole Brick Sewer
Grittleton Road390 „ „ ditto.
Titchborne Row35 run of ½-Brick Barrel Sewer.
Dawson Place38 „ 12-in. Pipes.
Total2043

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Two hundred and twenty-two feet run of 12-in.
Pipe Sewer has been constructed in Dudley Street at
the expense of the Vestry.
The estimated cost of the above-mentioned Sewers,
together with 1 mile 1571 yards of Drain Pipes laid
down to New Houses, &c. is about £2630.
Two miles and 132 yards of Brick Sewers, in which
the deposit varied from six to nine inches in depth,
have been cleansed, and the hard deposit removed, at a
cost to the Vestry of £66 : 1:6.
Five side entrances, ten Ventilating Shafts, two
Flushing Shafts and fifty-four Gulleys have been
constructed and re-constructed, and forty-two Gulleys
repaired in various parts of the Parish.
Ninety-seven Gulleys have been cleansed at a cost
to the Vestry of £ 11:2:1.
Five hundred and thirteen distinct Works relative
to the repair of Sewers and Gulleys, laying pipe