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work achieved, the real consequence of which can
only be measured by the accidents and mischief
that might arise were they in any way neglected ;
and in the busy thoroughfares of St. James's
Parish unquestionably such accidents would arise
did any neglect or want of promptness exist. With
the exceedingly small staff that is maintained for
Paving purposes, the Yestry might be contented if
they did all these small matters with dispatch and
neatness; but, in addition to these constantly recurring
openings, a multitude of small repairs have
been executed; to attempt to give a list of these
would not be actually impracticable, but would
answer no useful purpose to print, as it would form
a small volume of itself, and many of them come
periodically before the Works Committee, and are
also periodically reported to the Yestry.
One small, though most useful and important
work, has been the erection of a Refuge for Foot
Passengers at the junction of Waterloo Place and
Pall Mall. There is 110 doubt that this is a great
public convenience and safeguard at this point,
though being intended principally as a preventive to
accidents, it is difficult to prove what accidents
might have happened for the want of it; the immediate
cause of its erection being, however, a fatal
occurrence, proves that the necessity really existed
for some such protection.
The Sewers Works executed by the Yestry have
been rather more extensive than they had been for