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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98 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
purposes additional capital by means of new shares
or stock, with or without a guarantee or preference
dividend.
The Bill will, so far as may be necessary to
effect the objects and purposes thereof, alter, amend,
or repeal all or any of the powers and provisions of
the said London Sea Water Act, 1896, and all other
Acts affecting the Company.
To incorporate with the Bill, and apply to the
Company and the intended works, the provisions of
the Companies' Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,
and the Land Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845,
1860, and 1869, and some of the provisions (with or
without modification) of the Waterworks Clauses
Act, 1868, the Harbours, Docks, and Piers' Clauses
Act, 1847, Railway Clauses Act, 1863, and the
Companies' Clauses Act, 1863, and the provisions
of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,
witli respect to the temporary occupation of lands
near the proposed works during the constructing
thereof.
The longitudinal section shows the mains to
follow the natural contour of the roads, passing
down the centre of Gloucester Terrace, Bishop's
Road, and Westbourne Grove into Kensington, at a
depth of about seven or eight feet; the Company