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Paddington 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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80 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
The total length of sewers now under the jurisdiction
of the Vestry is 54 miles, 5 furlongs, and
152 yards.
Special Repairs to Sewers.
The following are the localities in which old
brick sewers have been repaired as specified in my
Special Report to the Works Committee, on the 26th
February, 1890:—
Length of
Sewers.
Feet.
Harrow Road and under Lines'Wharf
78
Bayswater Road, from Ossington Street to Western
Boundary of the Parish
120
Market Street, West of Sale Street to Cambridge
Place
688
Hyde Park Gardens
195
Moscow Road from Queen's Road to St. Petersburgh
Place
751
Bark Place
20
Salem Road
183
Total length
2,035
The cost of these repairs amounts to £2,010 3s. 9d.
The above-mentioned sewers had very defective
and irregular segmental or nearly flat bottoms, which
allowed a considerable quantity of sewage to stagnate
in them, and were otherwise in an insanitary condition.
They have now been greatly improved. The old brick
inverts have been taken out and glazed stoneware
invert blocks on concrete bed laid to proper gradients,
portions of the side walls cut out and under-pinned