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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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The same system has been carried on as in former year the men in pay of the parish sweeping the thoroughfares and the refuse collected being carted away by the contractor

£s.d.£s.d
Removing dust and carting away slop (Mr. Smeed)36G134
Ditto (Mr. Easton)85368
1,220
Parish sweepers' wages8631
Brooms, &c. tor ditto (Mr. Lewis)3819-
Waterproof hats (Mr. Edgington)2-
Blue woollen shirts (Messrs. Prater and Co.)510-
Writing on hats (Mr. Kendall)112
Making brand iron, and repairing barrows (Mr. Flood)16-
2,13182

carriage-way paving.

£s.d.
Castle Street, Long Acre.—Taken up from Mercer Street to King Street, and relaid in conjunction with St. Giles' District Board of Works1755
Cockspur Street.—Old macadamized road dug up, and new 3 x 8 Mountsorrel carriage-way on 5-inch concrete laid down at end of Spring Gardens25523
Craig's Court.—Carriage and tramway in entrance taken | up and relaid, and gravel spread on the upper part572
Drury Lane Burial Ground.—Removing stones, &c., to Adelphi depot, and sundry work1043
Strand.—From Northumberland House to Hungerford Street taken up and relaid, and 59 yards of new 3x9 Aberdeen granite laid down, and sundry other repairs1561411
Carried forward44414-