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St Giles (Camden) 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Maintenance of Asphalte Carriage-way
Pavements.
During the year, Contracts were entered into between
your Board and the several Contractors who laid the different
pavements for a further maintenance for 15 years of the
following streets, at the prices named:—
Great Coram Street (Woburn
Place to Little Coram Street) 6d. per yard superficial per annum.
Chenies Street 6d „ ,,
Southampton Street 6d ,, „
Broad Street Is. ,, ,,
* The Work within the St. Giles District was executed by
the St. Pancras Vestry during the re-construction of the
remaining portion of the sewer which is in St. Pancras
Parish, in consideration of your Board re-constructing portion
of the sewer in Woburn Square within St. Pancras
Parish, a Contract to do which work (as far as it lay in St.
Giles District) your Board had entered into.
Sewers,
The following Sewer Works were performed during the year:—
| Woburn Square, east side | 560 feet run new 4 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in. brick sewer, and 45 ft. run existing sewer at south end undsrpinned. |
| Bloomsbury Square, south side | 127 feet new 4 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in. brick sewer. |
| do. do. west side | 287 feet do. and 120 feet run existing sewer underpinned and repaired. |
| Little Guilford Street | 345 feet run existing sewer underpinned and repaired. |
| Wild Court, east end | 120 feet run new 4 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in. brick sewer to connect with sewer in Sardinia Place. |
| *Brunswick Square, north side | 110 feet run new 4 ft. by 2 ft. 8 in. brick sewer. |