Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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REPORT, 1890-91.
to be well sloped down to prevent accidents, sloping
grips from 6 to 8 feet apart, to be cut through
sufficiently wide to admit of foot-passengers to cross
the roads, and for drainage purposes.
Should the wood paving or any of the roads
after snow clearing be found slippery, ashes, fine
hoggin, or Thames shingle, must be immediately
spread over the surface.
Should the Canal be frozen and the navigation
stopped, or there is not any space on the Wharves
to deposit the collected snow from any of the beforementioned
localities, it must be carted and properly
stacked, and (if necessary) lighted and watched at
night, in any of the following places that are nearest
to the point of collection.
On the Southern footpath of the Uxbridge Road,
by Park Railings.
By Garden Enclosure, Connaught Square.
Hyde Park Gardens, by Stable Wall.
Sussex Square, by Garden Enclosure.
Warwick Road, in centre, between Rest-lamp,
near Blomfield Road, and the Cab Rank.
Sutherland Avenue, between the large Restlamps.
Elgin Avenue, on the Southern footpath between
Lauderdale Road to within one hundred feet