View report page

127
WATERING.
The street watering throughout the year was carried
out by Mr. William Mead, of Paddington, at a shedule of
prices. The water is supplied by the Grand Junction Water
Works Company by contract. The cost of team labour,
&c.,was £430 19s. 4d., and water £401 16s. 5d.
STAND POSTS.
The stand post opposite No. 27, Great Marlborough
Street, was removed, and a new one fixed in lieu thereof by
the side of the refuge in the centre of the street opposite
the Police Court.
New Stand Posts have been purchased during the year,
for fixing in place of those beyond repair, the cost of which
added to the cost of repacking, and sundry repairs to
existing posts amounted to £69 5s. 10d. The repairs to
stand posts have been far more extensive than usual, owing
to the very severe winter, and the action of frost upon the
services and connections.
SNOW, &c.
The past winter has been one of exceptional severity,
trying not only the scavengers, but more especially the
resources of the Contractors, who remove the refuse, &c.,
from the streets, most severely as will be gathered from
the fact that the natural outlet from the Contractors
Wharf (The Grand Junction Canal), was frozen over and
impassable for boats for no less than seven weeks without
a break, during the whole of which time the refuse, &c.,
was regularly removed from the Parish.