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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
SURVEYOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.
ROADS DEPARTMENT.
The undermentioned Works have been executed in this Department
during the Year ending 25th March, 1881.
GAS.
The Gas Testing Meters fixed at St. George's Circus and Elliott's Row
to test the quantity of Gas consumed, give the following results, viz:—
South Metropolitan Gas Company, 5.28 cubic feet per hour.
London Gas Company, 4 88 cubic feet per hour.
The Lamps of the South Metropolitan Gas Company consume 6 cubic feet more Gas
each per night than the Lamps of the London Gas Company.
TREES.
With reference to the failure of many of the Trees, the Gardener
employed to plant the last number this year, reports that the cause of
their death was the fact that too great a quantity of water had reached
the roots, in consequence of the loam in the holes being kept below the
level of the footways, which in wide footways would cause an abnormally
large quantity of water to reach the roots.
The system first adopted in planting the Trees, was to heap the loam
round the Trees above the level of the footpaving, but this was condemned
as improper.
Trees planted in public streets in place of dead ones 185
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WORKS EXECUTED.
PAVING,
New York laid in footways 940 square yards.
Grindlay's Patent Granite Aspbalte laid in Footways—
Blackman Street, Angel Place and Falcon Court,
1160 square yards.
Old Paving dressed and relaid in Carriageways—
St. George's Circus, High Street, and in Patching,
1860 square yards.