Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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providing and fixing new lamps and posts, and alterations to
old lamps, was £225 11s. 7d.
The sewer at the lower part of Arundel Street has been
lowered by your Vestry, at the expense of the owner of the
Hotel Previtali, to give better drainage to those premises.
Several of the small subsidiary sewers running under the
vaults of the houses in Regent Street have been partially
blocked. In each ease the stoppage was removed, and where
found necessary the old barrel drain destroyed and earthenware
pipes substituted.
The cost of repairing sewers, bricking up old disused
drains, new side entrance covers, &c., amounted to the sum
of £20 12s. 9½d. for the year.
GULLIES.
Sixty-five gullies have been reconstructed at a cost of
£276 8s. 11d. They are situate as follows:—
Brewer Street 2
Burlington Street (Old) 1
Carnaby Street 1
Charles Street 2
Duko Street 1
Golden Square 2
Heddon Street 2
James Street (Lower) 2
„ (Upper) 2
Jermyn Street 13
King Street (Regent Street) 11
Marlborough Mews 1
Norris Street 1
Peter Street 5
Portland Street 8
Princes Street (Regent Street) 1
Pulteney Street (Little) 2
Sherwood Street 4
Warwick Street (Regent Street) 4
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SEWERS.
ASPHALTE.
The undermentioned streets have been paved with asphalte during the year:—
Name of Strict. | Part of Street Taxed. | Date when Pa\ed. | Area of Asphalte in yards super. | Cost Per yard super. | Previous Paring. | Descriptions of Paving and Name of Contracter. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berwick St. | Oxford Street to Broad St | 1705½ | 12/- | Pitching | 2-inches of compressed asphalte on 6-in. of Portland cement concrete. The French Asphaltte Company. | |
Portland St. | Whole | 758½ | ,, | ,, | ||
Peter Street | ,, | 616 | ,, | ,, | ||
King Street (Regent St.) | 19 | June to A.ug. | 1399 | ,, | Macadam A. Pitching | |
Warwick St. (Regent St.) | ,, | 1450⅔ | ,, | ,, | ||
Sherwood St. | ,, | 673 | ,, | Pitching ,, | ||
Lower James Street | ,, | ,, | 316⅓ | ,, | ||
Upper James Street | ,, | ,, | 241 | ,, | ,, |
PITCHING.
The following pitched carriageways were relaid by men
in the employ of your Vestry at the COSt stated:-
£ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
Piccadilly Circus (new stone through the centre) | 298 | 10½* | |
Wells Street | 30 | 3 | 10* |
Heddon Street (Southern end) | 127 | 5 | 8* |
Hopkins Street (narrow part) | 23 | 4 | 6 |