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Shoreditch 1880

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

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The following quantities of old stone in the Vestry stone
yards, were dressed during the year, at a cost of £127 8s. l1d.,
viz:—
123½ yards super York edging
591 „ „ Granites
262 feet „ Moor stone
1176 „ run Curb
234 ,, „ Tram
4 Quadrant Blocks.
SEWERS WORK.
The following are the only works that were executed during
the year.
Edmunds Place, Shepherdess Walk—120 feet run of 12-inch
pipe, at a cost of £35 19s. Od.
Laburnum Street—520 feet run of 3-ft. 9-in. x 2-ft. 6-in.
brick sewer, at a cost of £665 l1s. 5d., including the sum of
£30 18s. 4d. paid to a clerk of works.
Four flushers and several laborers were employed in the
cleansing and repairing the sewers and gullies in the Parish, and
the amount paid in wages to them for the year was £553 19s. 4d.
One man has been constantly employed in cleansing the
Urinals in the Parish, and on Sundays and holidays two men
are employed in the early morning for the same purpose, the
amount paid in wages for the year was £64 4s. 5d. The urinals
were painted during the year, at a total cost of £36 16s.'4d.
The sum of £17 16s. 8d. was expended in wages for labor
in removing and setting up lamp columns, under the direction of
the Lamp Inspector.