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Wandsworth 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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53
Paving Works.
The cost of the various paving works carried
out during the past year is as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d.
New 2-inch asphalte paving on 6-inches of concrete
in Chelverton Road, from High Street to
Omnibus Company's stable entrance 354 10 8
New tar-paving and 12-inch by 8-inch granite kerb
to footpath in Hotham Villas Road 97 9 6
New tar-paving and re-laying channel and kerb in
places on Dryburgh bridge and approaches 42 7 10
Re-topping tar-paving in the following roads, viz. : —
Werter Road, Disraeli Road, Lower Richmond
Road, Lifford Street, Dyer's Lane, Roehampton
Lane, High Street, Roehampton, and Medfield
Street 18 2 6
Dressing tar-paving with tar and shells, executed
by men in the employ of the Board, in the
following roads, viz. :—
Carlton Road, St. John's Road, Ravenna Road,
Burston Road, Carmalt Gardens, Charlwood
Road, Park Fields, Colinette Road, Spencer
Road, Clarendon Road, Gardeners' Lane,
Redgrave Road, Gwalior Road, Lower Richmond
Road, Disraeli Road, Werter Road,
College Street, and Putney Bridge Road 517 4
Private works, gas and water trenches, and various
small works and repairs 224 5 11
£788 3 9
The quantity of materials used in the above works
was as follows, viz:—514½ yards super. 2-inch compressed
asphalte on 6 inches of concrete; 80½ yards super,
¾-inch asphalte on concrete; 529 yards super, tar-paving;
435 yards super, topping to tar-paving; 14,098 yards
super, dressing to tar-paving; 113 yards super. 2½-inches
York paving; 1177/5,-yards super. Victoria stone paving;
530½-feet run 12-inch by 8-inch Norway granite kerb,
10 tons 5-incli by 7-inch Aberdeen granite setts, and