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 Paddington]
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Glo'ster Square
Hyde Park-Sq.,
UpperHyde-Pk.
Street, Clarendon
Place
ft.
1300 run underpinning to old Sewer with new
stoneware invert blocks.
Bishop's Road, between
Glo'ster
Terrace & Gardens,
& Inverness
Road
1020 „ ditto ditto ditto.
Fromlnverness-Rd.,
along Westbourne
Grove
to Garway Road
1020 „ 12-in. pipes, laid under old invert.
In Southwick Place, one Side-Entrance to
Sewer has been made; and 131 Gully Drains
have been constructed in different parts of the
Parish, for the purpose of carrying off the surface
water.
Total length of Brick Sewer constructed,
6660 feet run. Total length of Pipe Sewer,
1158 feet run. Total length of Drain Pipe laid
down, 24,000 feet run—the value of these works I
estimate at £ 7811.
The Sewerage Works constructed by E. Thirst,
Contractor, in Devonport Street, Bathurst Mews,
Clifton Place, Glo'ster Square, Hyde Park Square,
Albion Place, Clarendon Place and Upper Hyde
Park Street, are part of the improvements suggested
in my Report of the 12th May, 1858, on
the condition of the Old Sewers in Paddington.
On the 6th June, 1860, two months after the
completion of the Contract, I passed through the
Sewers in question, and found them in excellent