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St James's 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1875,
WADE TO THE
VESTRY OF ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER,
BY
JAMES EDMUNDS, M.I., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., F.C.S., 4c.
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC ANALYST FOR ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.
GENERAL WORKS—
| Situation. | Description of Work. | Amount Expended. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought forward | . | . | 5 | 9 | |||
| NAMES TO STREETS. | |||||||
| Generally | New Street Tablets and Fixing ditto | 6 | 14 | 0 | |||
| Stone Yard | Repairs to Disinfecting Apparatus . | 8 | 13 | 2 | |||
| Vestry Hall | Various Repairs and Works executed | 22 | 19 | 6 | |||
| PAVING WORKS. | |||||||
| St. James's Street | Laying portion at lower end with new Aberdeen Granite Cubes, Setting Kerbs and Regulating Footways, supplying new materials where required | 1246 | 6 | ||||
| Pall Mall | Re-laying portion at West end, supplying new material where required | 97 | 11 | ||||
| Haymarket | Re-laying lower portion with new Aberdeen Cubes, new Crossing in Charles Street, Entrances to Stables. Resetting Kerbs, and Repairs to Footways | 1005 | 12 | 10 | |||
| St. James's Place | Repairing and Re-laying Carriageways and Crossings, supplying new ma terials where required | 16 | 17 | 7 | |||
| Blue Ball Yard | 11 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| King St., Regent St. | 8 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Ticliborne Street | 55 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Trenches | Making good 3,168 Trenches after openings, made good for the Gas, Water, and Telegraph Companies, the cost of which is re-imbursed to the Vestry. Ditto 43 openings for private individuals, the cost being borne by the private individuals. | ||||||
| Richmond Street | Re laying and Re-dressing portions of Footway and Kerb, supplying defective materials with new | 62 | 12 | 3 | |||
| Rupert Street . | 151 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Rupert Street (Upper) | 46 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| FOOT PASSENGER REFUGES. | 2701 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| St. James's Street and PaH Mall . | New Foot Passenger Refuge, including new Lamp, Lantern, and Posts, Kerb, &c., &c. | 115 | 7 | 7 | |||
| Circus, Piccadilly | Alterations to Refuge, removing previous Lamp and fixing new . | 18 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 133 | 14 | 1 | |||||
| 15 | |||||||