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Clerkenwell 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]

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necessary application to the Vestry to do so, the Vestry
therefore directed that he bo proceeded against for contravening
the Metropolis Local Management Act. Two
summonses were accordingly taken out and on Wednesday,
the 9th September last, at Clerkenwell Police
Court, Mr. Milward was fined 20 shillings and costs
for erecting the scaffold and £10 and costs for constructing
the areas.
The paving was relaid throughout by the Vestry's
workmen and the gradients considerably improved.
JOBBING WORKS.
For the maintenance and general repair of the
carriageways and footways of the Parish the following
materials have been used:—
Three tons of new Granite were laid.
Ballast 166 cube yards
Hoggin 102 „
Sand 172 „
Shingle 46 ,,
Broken Granite 654 yards, of which 155 yards were
broken by the Vestry's men.
6,442 ft. sup. new York were laid.
(Of which 736 ft. were for the various Companies)
49,971 ft. sap. old York relaid.
(Of which 12,221 ft. were for the various Companies)
81 ft. sup. new Patent Victoria Stone were laid.
(Of which 44 ft. were for the various Companies)
252 ft. sup. Patent Victoria Stone relaid.
(Of which 190 ft. were for the various Companies)