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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]
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PLANT.
Four new Water Vans with 450-gallon tanks have been
purchased. These vans are all fitted with special apparatus for
Hushing gullies. Three of the old Water Vans have been sold
and a fourth is used with our paving staff. The system of
doing our own small repairs to vans, carts, Ac., is an economical
one, and we have avoided many long bills since we took the
matter into our hands. We have enough work to keep a man
constantly going. If we could carry out larger repairs we should
effect a further saving.
DISTRICT REPAIRS.
The following works have been executed in the repairing
and maintaining of the footways in the district:—
Footways.
| New 2½ inch York paving laid | 1997 ft. supl. |
| New Victoria stone paving laid | 399 „ „ |
| Old York and Victoria paving relaid | 22654 „ „ |
| New curb laid | 144 „ lineal |
| Old curb taken up and relaid | 2458 „ „ |
| Holes cut in York | No. 49 |
Carriageways.
The following works have been executed in the repairing and maintaining of the carriageways in the district:—
| Old granite pitching relaid | 5361⅓ yds. supl. |
| New granite pitching, crossings | 92 ⅔ „ „ |
| Wood paving relaid | 576⅓ „ |
| Lias lime concrete 6 inches thick under pitching in sewer trenches | 330⅓ „ ,, |
| Do. do. 8 inches thick | 81 ,, ,, |
| Portland cement concrete 6 inches thick under wood paving in sewer trenches | 4 ⅓ ,, ,, |
| Do. do. 9 inches thick | 63 ⅓ „ ,, |
New wood paving laid No. 3470 wood blocks
Ground excavated and carted away for
crete space under pitching, &c. 90 yds. cube
The above works do not include work done in restoration
after Gas, Water, Electric Light, and other companies' trenches,
nor the work executed under the head of " Estimate Work.''