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Paddington 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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complete the paving of various new streets, at the cost
of the owners of houses and land abutting thereon.
A large number of trenches daily opened by the
Gas and Water Companies, have been reinstated by the
Vestry's workmen at a cost of £1,422 11s. 11d., and
that amount has been paid to the Vestry.
The carriage-way and foot-paths in Grand Junction
Road, injured by the works of the West Middlesex
Water Company, have also been repaired by the Vestry
at a cost to the Company amounting to £625 12s. 5d.,
namely, £339 17s. 9d. for paving works, and
£285 14s. 8d. for repairs to gulley drains and sewers.
The total length of streets now maintained by and
at the cost of the Vestry is 48 miles, 7 furlongs, and
187 yards.
New Sewer Works.
Nine hundred and eighty-three feet run of 3 ft.
9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. one brick sewer, together with the
required number of air openings and side entrances,
have been constructed by Mr. E. Vigers, in a new street
called Hormead Road, west of Carlton Terrace, Harrow
Road, for the surface drainage of the street and buildings
to be erected there.
Seventeen feet run of 3 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 6 in. one
brick sewer have been constructed by the Vestry's
Contractor, in Inverness Terrace, in continuation of