Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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has been made into a thoroughfare. As the level of the street was
higher than Francis Street, with which it has thus been made to communicate,
the carriageway and footways had to be lowered between
No. 5 and that street, sub-kerbs placed on each side between Francis
Street and No. 8, and a gas main lowered. A pitched crossing has also
been laid across the west end of the street. The total cost of the work
amounted to £156. 7s. 6d.
Payne Street. East Side. The tar paving with which the footway
was paved has been removed, and York paving laid instead, at a cost of
£61. 2s. 8d.
Trinity Street. South-east Side, in front of the new Board
School. A strip of ground, 165 feet 2 inches in length and an average
width of 3 feet 4 inches, having been given up by the London School
Board in front of the school which has been erected on the site
formerly occupied by Nos. 7 to 19, it has been added to the public
footway and paved at a cosl of €20. 7s. 10d.
PAVEMENT LIGHTS.
Areas and pavement lights have been sanctioned in the public
footways at the following places. Agreements have in all cases been
entered into by the owners of the premises, and the work carried out
at their expense under the supervision of the Surveyor.
By Mr. Wm. Wells, Crouch Hill, south side, in front of Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, and 9, Bank Buildings.
,, Messrs. D. & A. Macfarlane, in front and at the Hank of the premises
situated on the north-west side of Seven Sisters' Road, at
the south-west corner of Hornsey Road.
„ Mrs. Mary Beazley, Holloway Road, north-east side, in front of No.
454.
,, Mr. Alfred Syer, Holloway Road, north-east side, in front of Nos.
442 and 444.
,, Mr. F. J. Matthews, Holloway Road, north-cast side, in front of
No. 436.
„ Mr. F. J. Matthews, Holloway Road, north-east side, in front of
No. 434.
„ Mr. B. Davies, Holloway Road, north-east side, in front of Nos. 426,
428, and 430.