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 Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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High Street, Shored itch—2 now Refuges constructed, £20 0s. 11d.
Old Street, near to Obelisk—new 3-inch tooled York paving, steps,
&c., £42 13s. 11d.
The footway paving in the following localities is in a bad
condition and should be repaved as soon as possible—
Alma Street
Baring Street
Batemans How
Bridport Place
Brunswick Street
Clifton Street (portions of)
Clinger Street
Curtain Road (portions of)
Dunloe Street (portions of)
Gopsall Street
Hemsworth Street
Horse-Shoe Alley
Hyde Road
Kingsland Road (portions of)
Laburnam Street
Mintern Street
Penn Street
Rushton Street
Wenlock Street
White Cross Place
Wimbourn Street
Three masons and their labourers were employed in repairing
the footways and over trenches opened by the Gas and Water
Companies; their wages for the year amounted to £114 17s. 0d.
The Companies contributed £119 3s. 5d. for labour, and
£225 6s. 2d. for material required in the said repairs. Other
contributions to paving amounted to the sum of £95 16s. 10d.
The Victoria Stone Company supplied 200 superficial feet of
their patent stone for use in repairing the footways, at a cost of