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Paddington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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has been carried out by the Vestry's workmen, at a
cost to the Companies of £1,280 15s. 10d.
A large water main has been laid by the Grand
Junction Waterworks Company through the Parish,
from the west to the east end thereof, and in doing so
the Company's workmen broke up portions of the
carriageways and footways in the following localities
—viz., Uxbridge Road, from the Western boundary
to Stanhope Terrace, Stanhope Street, Sussex Square,
Sussex Place, Devonport Street, London Street, Norfolk
Square, and Star Street; terminating in the Edgware
Road by Star Street.
The reinstating of the before-mentioned carriageways
and footways, as the works progressed, were
executed by the Parish workmen at the expense of the
Company.
The total length of streets now maintained by and
at the cost of the Vestry is 49 miles, 3 furlongs, 161
yards.
New Sewer Works.
Six hundred and thirty feet run of 4-ft. by 2-ft. 6-in.
one brick sewer, also air openings and bell mouth
junctions in connection therewith, have been constructed,
from the sewer in Warwick Road, by Clifton
Villas, to and along Clifton Gardens to Randolph
Crescent, at the Vestry's expense. The construction