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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
Shoreditch 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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The Road Foreman's wages, whose duties include the directing of the masons and
paviors, also the Steam Road Roller, amounted to £117 16s. 3d. Four masons, on
average, and their labourers, were employed in repairing the footways and over trenches
opened by the Gas and Water Companies and Post Office Telegraphs; their wages for
the year amounted to £572 15s. lid. The Companies contributed £102 0s. 6d. for
labour, use of tools and mortar, and £33 8s. 10d. for material required in the said
repairs. Other contributions for paving, &c., amounted to the sum of £133 16s. 10d.,
part of which was due and paid to the Contractor.
The Contractors supplied 1,100 superficial feet of Victoria patent stone for use in
repairing the footways, at a cost of £32 1s. 8d., 16,200 superficial feet of new 2½ in.
tooled York paving, at a cost of £506 5s. 0d., 300 ditto of new 3 in. York paving at a
cost of £10 7s. 0d., and 551 lineal feet of edge curb, 2 granite quadrants, 54½ feet super
of Moorstone. and 18 ft. York channel, at a cost of £40 6s. 3d.
The following quantity of stone, in addilion, was redressed by piece-work in the yard at the cost stated:—
| 1865½ feet run granite edge curb | £42 3 | 10 | |
| 00 feet Moorstone | 18 | 11 | |
| 5 Spur stones and granite blocks worked | 1 0 | 0 | |
| SEWERS WORK. | |||
| The following works, at the cost stated, have been executed by the Contractor during the past year:— | |||
| Bath Place, Old Street— | |||
| 187 feet run 12 in. pipe sewer with 1 new manhole and 2 ne gullies constructed to same, bends, junctions and drai connections, and gullies in Bath Court reconstructed | w n £08 | 18 | 1 |
| Aiming Street— | |||
| A portion of old brick sewer removed and replaced with 12 in pipe, 2 gullies reconstructed, and all necessary drai connections | £25 | 11 | 11 |
| Livermere Road, between Trafalgar Road and Haggerston Road— | |||
| Brick sewer extended with 386 ft. run 15 in. pipe, 1 new manhole and 2 new gullies constructed, bends, junctions, and drain connections | £103 | 2 | 4 |
In addition to the work enumerated above, the undermentioned sewers have
been cleansed by the Vestry's workmen, the deposit removed and carted out of the
Parish as follows, and numerous gullies have been repaired:—