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Gullies Trapped 12
,, Constructed 8
Airshafts „ 2
12-inch drains laid 1
9-inch ditto 17
6-inch ditto 55
Houses drained 121
House drains trapped 3
Cesspools destroyed 119
PAVING.
The chief work under this head has been that executed in
Bagnigge Wells Road. The heavy and constant expense of
maintaining the unpaved portion of this Road with Broken
Guernsey Granite, in consequence of the great and increasing
railway and other traffic, induced the Vestry to consider the
propriety of paving the whole with Granite Cubes, at the estimated
cost of £2500. With this view the Saint Pancras Vestry
were consulted, (one half of the Road lengthways being in that
Parish,) and a mutual agreement was come to that the whole
should be paved, each Vestry undertaking a certain length of
the Road, to pave and maintain it for 5 years at the least, as an
equivalent for that paved and maintained by the other. And
under the sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the
sum of £2500 has been raised by this Vestry by way of a Loan
for 5 years, at 41 per cent interest, and the work has been carried
out at the cost, including necessary improvement of the
footway in front of Hamilton Row, and Union Terrace; and
the carriageway in Guildford Place, of £2864 8s. 4d.
LINE OF FRONTAGE.
During this year it has devolved upon the Vestry to undertake
a public duty, important, not only to this Parish, but to the
Metropolis at large, viz., to exercise the power vested in them
for the preservation of the line of frontage of the public Streets