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Shoreditch 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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St. >.John's Road—By almshouses, the footway repaved with now
3-inch York, at a cost of £29 2s. 3d.
Lee Street—The footway on the south side repaved with new 3-inch
York, at a cost of £122 4s. 0d.
Asphalte Paving.
The footway on the west side of Whitmore Road has been paved
with asphalte by the "Societe des Asphaltes du Val de Travers," at an
estimated cost of £78 10s. 0d., to be paid for at the end of twelve
months, if approved of, (the twelve months will expire 12th February,
1871).
Footway Paving (Repairs).
The cost of repairing the several footways by the Contractors,
amounted to £119 6s. 0d., as follows:—
New North Road—Portions of the footways relaid, at a cost of
£64 4s. 8d.
East Road—Portions of the footways relaid at a cost of £15 18s. 7d.
William Street—Canal Road, the footways relaid at a cost of
£11 16s. 0d.
Lee Street (North side)—The footway relaid at a cost of £27 6s. 9d.
There are two masons with a laborer each, employed in repairing
the footway pavements in the parish, one of them is generally employed
in repairing trenches, opened by the Gas and Water Companies, and
their wages amounted to £245 1s. 8d. for the year.
The amount of work done for the Gas and Water Companies, in
repairing trenches in the footways, was £244 19s. 2d.
The contractors supplied 2,100 feet super of new 25½-inch York, at
a cost of £52 10s. 0d., which was used in the repair of the footway
pavements in the parish.