Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1894 made to the Vestry of Saint James, Westminster
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Thirteen hundred openings have been made by the Gas
Water, Electric Light, Hydraulic Power and Telephone
Companies, and the Post Office, the areas disturbed
being:-
Pitching
Macadam
Wood
Asphalte (Carriageway)
Asphalte (Footway)
Footway
Kerb
New York Stone
Plug Boxes, &c.
P. C. Concrete
229 yards super.
609 do.
2,712 do.
901¼ do.
38 do.
31,594½ feet super.
269½ feet run.
5,331¼ feet super.
43 let into pavement.
825⅓ cubic yards.
These surfaces were made good at the expense of the
Companies, the total amount chargeable to them for the
year being £3,718 8s. 6d.
REPAIRS TO STREETS.
The cost of the General Repairs, &c., to streets, executed
by men in the employ of your Vestry, was as follows:—
£
s.
d.
Air Street
13
6
2
Appletree Yard
0
7
9
Argyll Street
6
16
9
Babmaes Mows
0
11
5
Beak Street
32
4
8
Berwick Street
3
3
9
Boyle Street
64
7
0
Brewer Street
0
4
7
Broad Street
33
12
1
Carried forward
154
14
2