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St James's 1883

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

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93
average, rather more than three times each during the year; the
amount being as follows:—
£
s.
d.
Repairing lamps
24
10
9
New meter box
3
10
0
Meter box keys
0
17
6
£28
18
3
The ordinary street lamps are kept in repair by the Gas
Company.
REPAIRING SEWERS.
In the autumn one of the small subsidiary sewers, running
through the vaults in Regent Street, was found to be partially
stopped, and as it had not a proper fall, it was considered necessary
that it should be destroyed, and pipes substituted; and this was
done accordingly.
The cost of repairing sewers, bricking up old disused drains, &c:,
has amounted to the sum of £137 12s. 3d. for the year.
GULLIES.
Sixty gullies have been reconstructed, altered, or repaired, as
found necessary, at a cost of £396. Of those reconstructed, ten
were in St. James's Street, two in St. James's Place, eight in
Beak Street, seven in Wax-dour Street, and eight in Poland Street;
and in three of these cases a new connection was made to the
sewer.
CLEANSING SEWERS AND GULLIES.
The cost of labour for cleansing the sewers was £166 19s. 4½d.,
and for emptying 381 gullies, on the average ten times each,
£45 7s.
DETRITUS.
One hundred and forty-five loads of detritus and accumulation
have been removed from the sewers and gullies, at a cost of
£71 13s.