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Paddington 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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REPORT, 1890-91.
The snow to be collected after heaping, viz.:—
From London Street, Cambridge Place, Southwick
Street, Connaught Street, Connaught Square, and
Seymour Street, and from all corners of Streets, in
other parts, it is to be stacked in ridges, grips being
cut every 6 or 8 feet for drainage, all crossings,
channels, and gulleys to be kept clean.
Plough A.
As quickly as possible start the men, horses, and
Plough along North Wharf Road, Green Street,
Harrow Road to Edgware Road, to the Junction of
Praed Street, turn round and go up the centre of
Edgware Road and Maida Yale, to the Western
Boundary, returning the same route to save time and
horses, to Praed Street, which plough to Spring
Street, down Spring Street, Grand Junction Road
to Upper Porchester Street, Porchester Place,
Connaught Street and Square, Stanhope Place.
Get a relay of horses here. Go to Eastern
Boundary, and then start down the Bayswater Road
to the Western Boundary, clear as quickly as
possible bulk of snow on the South side of
roadway, and heap the same on the Park
side footpath, cutting grips 6 or 8 feet apart for
drainage, keeping all crossings, channels, and gulleys
clear. Eight or nine able men from the road-picking
or spreading gang to follow the Plough to clear
ridges that are left too high by the Plough at the