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The following main thoroughfares were also cleansed
on Sundays between 6 and 10 a.m., viz. :—
Bloomsbury Square (south side).
Broad Street (between Bloomsbury
Street, High Street, and Great
St. Andrew Street).
Bury Street.
Charing Cross Road.
Endell Street.
Great Queen Street.
Great St. Andrew Street.
Hart Street.
High Ilolborn.
High Street.
Little Queen Street.
Little St. Andrew Street.
New Compton Street.
New Oxford Street.
Shaftesbury Avenue.
Southampton Row (from Bloomsbury
Place to High Holborn).
Theobald's Road.
Tottenham Court Road.
Vernon Place.
The main thoroughfares in the district were also
watered twice on Sundays during the summer months
between the hours of 7 a.m. and 1 p.m., when the condition
of the weather rendered it desirable.
The cost of the foregoing works is included in the lump
sum contracts for cleansing and street watering.
The question of cleansing the whole of the public footways
in the District was again considered by your Board. It had,
since 187 9, been the custom to do so during wet and sloppy
weather, 16 boys and 1 man as ganger beiug employed to do
this work, their time in dry weather being occupied in
collecting horse droppings from the surfaces of the several
wood and asphalte pavements in the District.
Considerable attention was given to the matter by you,
and it was ultimately decided to continue the present
system as above described, and in addition, in the event of
a snowfall, to clear the snow from the whole of the footways
in the District, this work being considered by you almost,
if not quite as necessary as the cleansing of the carriageways,
and one which should be undertaken by the Local