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]
This page requires JavaScript
Twelve hundred and fifty-seven openings have been made by the Gas, Water, Electric Light, Hydraulic Power and Telephone Companies, and the Post Office, the areas disturbed being:—
Pitching | 588½ yards super. |
Macadam | 739 do. |
Wood | 645 do. |
Asphalte (carriageway) | 620 do. |
Asphalte (footway) | 4½ do. |
Footway | 20,081 feet super. |
Kerb | 128 feet run. |
New York Stone | 1,981 feet super. |
Plug Boxes, &c. | 41 let into pavement. |
The whole of the wood paving in Little Argyll Street
has been taken up, turned over, and re-laid by men in the
employ of your Vestry. All defective wood blocks were
replaced with new.
WOOD PAVING
REPAIRS TO STREETS.
The cost of the General Repairs, &c., to streets, executed by men in the employ of your Vestry, was as follows:—
£ | s. | d. | |
---|---|---|---|
Air Street | 3 | 12 | 8 |
Albany Court Yard | 0 | 14 | 3 |
Argyll Street | 18 | 2 | |
Arundell Street | 0 | 8 | 7 |
liabilities Mews | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Beak Street | 18 | 13 | 3 |
Berwick Street | 9 | 11 | 5 |
Brewer Street | 8 | 1 | 5 |
Bridle Lane | 17 | 1 | 8 |
Broad Street | 5 | 7 | 7 |
Burlington Street (New) | 26 | 3 | 4 |
Burlington Street (Old | 24 | 10 | 11 |
Burlington Gardens | 13 | 4 | 2 |
Bury Street | 44 | 3 | 10 |
Carlton Gardens | 21 | 19 |