Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Footways.
Endell Street, east and west sides | Repairs to York stone footway, and repairs to granite kerb | |||
Great Coram Street, from Kenton Street to Hunter Street | do. do. do. | 118 | 15 | |
Great Turnstile | New 3in. Yorkshire stone | 112 | ||
Maynard Street | Repairs to York stone footway and new granite kerb | 15 | I | |
Neal's Yard | New kerb and mastic asphalte under archway from Great St. Andrew Street | 31 | 7 | 3 |
The macadamized roads in the District were repaired
and made good with broken granite where necessary, a
steam roller being used to level the surface.
The roadway and footways of Charlotte Mews were
repaved during the year at the cost of the Duke of Bedford.
The cost of the work was £248.
The arrangement made between your Board and the
Bedford Office some years ago, as to the widening and
paving of Caroline Mews, has during the past year been
carried out. The original widths at the two ends were
13 feet, the remainder of the Mews being 29 feet in width.
The new street formed partly on the site of the old Mews
and partly on land taken from the houses on the south
side of Bedford Square has now a width of 62 feet 6 inches
throughout. Your Board, in accordance with the said
arrangement, has paved the roadway with asphalte and
formed the necessary gullies; the work of forming and
paving the footpaths, erecting lamp-posts and extending
the sewer at the western end being performed by the
frontagers. The new street is, as was the case with
Caroline Mews, maintainable by the Board, and the London