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St Giles (Camden) 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Supply Corporation Limited being completed, the land
purchased by the Board has been thrown into the public
way and paved over, and the widened street was openedto
the public on the 4th May, 1900.
The following information with respect to the St, Giles District may be of interest:—
| Its superficial area is 245 acres. Length of public ways, 15 miles 7 furlongs. | ||||||
| Total length of public and private ways, 16 miles. | ||||||
| The superficial area of carriage-ways is 47 acres, 1 : | rood, 247 yards. | |||||
| Do. do. footways is | 24 | do. | 0 | do. | 321 do. | |
| The total area of public-ways | 71 | do. | 1 | do. | 568 do. | |
| Total number of public lamps | 1,187 | |||||
| Do. | iron guard-posts | 324 | ||||
| Do. | granite do. | 29 | ||||
| Do. | trees | 159 | ||||
| Do. | iron and wire tree guards | 159 | ||||
| Do. | water-posts | 11 | ||||
| Do. | street gullies | 1,142" | ||||
| Do. | air-shafts to local sewers opening on to the street surface | 247 | ||||
| Do. | do. do. to main sewers do. do. do. | 55 | ||||
| Do. | air shafts to local sewers carried up the fronts of adjacent buildings | |||||
| 17 | ||||||
| Do. | shafts to main sewer | 1 | ||||
| Do. | manhole covers over sewers, flushing tanks, &c. | 65 | ||||
| Do. | manhole covers over subways belonging to the London County Council | 14 | ||||
| Do. | sewer side-entrances to local sewers | 83 | ||||
| Do. | do. to main sewers | 19- | ||||
| Do. | street orderly bins for street sweepings | 82: | ||||
| Do. | bins to contain ballast for spreading over pavings when slippery | 33 | ||||