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St George (Southwark) 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]

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34
Parish of Saint George the .^fartyr, Sou thwart.
Street to Borough Road) on sanitary grounds I would recommend ???
these carriageways should be paved with Australian hard-wood bio???
—Karri or Jarrah.
The old granite cubes from the London Road and Old K???
Road, and Borough High Street could, with advantage, be relaid???
adjacent side streets, where the traffic is not so great. This would???
a decided improvement in a sanitary point of view and a great sav???
in maintenance and scavenging.
The whole of these works could be carried out by the Vesti???
workmen.
During the year the Vestry have purchased 2,000 square ya???
of Victoria Stone, the whole of which has been laid by the Vestry's o???
Workmen in the best manner, at a cost considerably less than if 1???
by Contractors.
It has been suggested by Members of the Vestry that Sanctuar???
should be constructed in the Old Kent Road at its junction with
New Kent Road and Bermondsey New Road, also at the Newing???
Causeway end of the London Road, opposite the "Alfred's Head" a???