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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
Wandsworth 1894
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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46
Daily Cost.
£. s. d.
Wages 0 12 4¼
Coke 0 3 10½
Oil, waste, &c. 0 0 10
Repairs 0 1 5
Insurance 0 0 3¾
£0 18 9½
The only new paving work executed during the year
has been a paved stand at the new drinking trough, Loat's
lload, placed there by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain
and Cattle Trough Association (24 yards super, granite
paving £16 10s.)
The following sums have been expended in paving repairs, viz.:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| For granite and York paving | 181 | 19 | 0 |
| For asphalte paving | 426 | 0 | |
| For tar-paving | 8 | 0 | |
| For tar-paving dressing with tar and grit, 29,000 yards super. | 119 | 12 | 0 |
| *For wood-paving, Iligh Street, originally laid in 1880 | 598 | 0 | 0 |
| For ditto repairs of other pavements | 10 | 0 | |
| £1,789 | 0 | 0 |
*Rather more than half the area of this If 80 paving has been relaid this
year; it is proposed to relay the remainder during the summer of 1895.
The cost of repairs over the whole area during the fourteen years previous
to the relaying was 2s. per yard super. Of the area relaid 660 yards super,
were laid down with old blocks cleaned and grouted in cement, costing 3s.
per yard super.; and 1,370 yards supt r. were laid with new 5 inch blocks,
close jointed and grouted with tar and pitch, the concrete being refaced;
the cost of the latter method was 7s. 4d. per yard s iper.
The following alterations and additions to pavements have been made at the cost of private owners, viz.
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carriage entrance to No. 11, Macaulay Road, asphalte relaid | 5 | 0 | 0 |