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Paddington 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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have been carried out at the cost of owners of houses
and land in the usual manner.
The total length of streets maintained at the
cost of the Vestry is 45 miles 5 furlongs and 46
yards.
Trenches opened by Gas and Water Companies
and others have been reinstated at their cost by the
Vestry's workmen, amounting to £1,038 0s. 3d., and
repaid to the Vestry.
New Sewer Works.
In the portion of Inverness Terrace extending
from Inverness Place to No. .2 Inverness Terrace,
five hundred and forty feet run of 3 ft. 9 in. by
2 ft. 6 in., one brick sewer, with an outlet into the
deep sewer in Inverness Place, has been constructed
by the Vestry's contractor. The brick sewer from
Fosbury Mews, which had a temporary outlet into
the existing 12-in. pipe sewer on the west side of
Inverness Terrace, has been extended and connected
with the new brick sewer near No. 6 there. Block
traps with two feet of 6-in. drain pipe were fixed in
both sides of sewer opposite the centre of forty-
three houses in the terrace, as outlets for any new
drains that may be required. The outlets of the
existing 12-in. pipe sewers, constructed in the year
1856, on the east and west sides of this portion of
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