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St James's 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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LICENSES
Have been granted for the erection of seventy-seven hoardings and
scaffolds for the purposes of rebuilding, alterations, &c., and thirtyfive
licenses have been renewed. Permission has also been given
in forty-three cases to open the roadway to repair water pipes, or
for similar purposes. The cost of making good these openings
is charged to the person taking out the license.
COAL PLATES.
During the past twelve months ninety-nine new coal plates were
cut into the paving.
ASPHALTE.
In the months of August and September Beak Street and
Smith's Court were paved with asphalte, an allowance being made
by the contractors for the old pitching which previously formed the
surface of these streets.
One of the passages leading from the Haymarket to St. James's
Market and the entrance to Blue Ball Yard, St. James's Street,
have also been paved, as nuisances were frequently committed at
these places, and it was thought asphalte could be much more
easily cleansed than the former paving.
A contract for paving Poland Street with asphalte has been
entered into, and the work was commenced on the 24th of March.
The asphalte laid in Beak Street, Smith's Court, and Blue Ball
Yard, and now being laid in Poland Street, is compressed asphalte,
two inches thick, on six inches of Portland cement concrete; that
in the passage leading to St. James's Market being mastic asphalte
one inch thick. The contractors in each case were the "Societe
Francaise des Asphaltes."
WOOD PAVING
Has been laid in the following streets in lieu of the old pitching or
macadam: —