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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feet
Westbourne Ter 1230 run new glazed stoneware invert, and
underpinning to old Sewers.
Seymour Street 384 „ ditto ditto.
Stanhope Place 100 „ ditto ditto.
Connaught Square 890 „ ditto ditto.
Berkeley Street 900 „ ditto ditto.
Lower Porchester
218 „ ditto ditto.
Street
Norfolk Crescent 236 „ ditto ditto.
Sussex Square, 184 „ ditto ditto
(East side)
Sussex Gardens 234 „ ditto ditto.
In Sussex Square and Sussex Gardens, two
Side Entrances to Sewers have been made; 166
Gully Drains have been constructed in different
parts of the Parish for the purpose of carrying off
the surface water, and 122 repaired.
Total length of Brick Sewer constructed,
3227 feet run. Total length of Drain Pipe laid
down, 11,088 feet run. The value of these works
I estimate at £4000.
The Sewerage Works constructed by William
Crockett, Contractor, in Sussex Square, Sussex
Gardens, Westbourne Street, Westbourne Crescent,
Westbourne Terrace, Connaught Square, Berkeley
Street, Lower Porchester Street, Stanhope Place and
Norfolk Crescent, are part of the improvements suggested
in my Report of the 12th May, 1858, on the
condition of the old Sewers in Paddington. After
the completion of the contract, I passed through