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Areas in Yards.
Andoe Road 400
Barnard Road 1,320
Benham Street 947
Bridge Road West 4,832
Candahar Road 1,385
Doddington Grove 1,900
Falcon Grove 1,611
Granfield Street 1,378
Howie Street 960
Ingrave Street 4,568
Kerrison Road 1,116
Linda Street 1,207
Octavia Street 1,366
Southolm Street 1,134
Stockdale Road 2,259
Stoekwood Street 592
Theatre Street (part of) 450
Tritton Street 498
Usk Road 1,572
Wayland Road 1,119
Wix Lane 2,520
Total area of streets paved 33,134
All the above streets were paved in the early part
of the year, for on 26th July, the Council decided to
suspend any further use of this paving material for a period of
twelve months, in order that its utility might be more severely
tested. It is to be regretted that the development of this
important work should have been postponed, for although
differences of opinion existed as to the value of tarred-slag
macadam as a paving in main streets there were none as to its
value in side streets. The importance of impervious carriageway
paving in urban sanitation cannot be too strongly
emphasised, and it is to be hoped that the Council will see their
way to make a much more extended use of this form of paving
in the future. The advantages of impervious paving have
already been discussed in previous annual reports, in connection
with the prevention of infantile mortality.
Sewer Ventilation.
During the year, seventeen ventilating shafts were erected,
eight of which were erected by the London County Council.
Six of these ventilate the County Council's sewer in Battersea