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Shoreditch 1883

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

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Old Street, (by Great Eastern Street)—carriageway repaved with old
redressed and undressed granite pitchings, and a portion repaved
with new 7" by 3'' pitchings, all on ballast, £163 18s. 3d.
Clifton Street—carriageway repaved with old redressed and undressed
granite pitchings on concrete, £761 14s. Od.
Shoreditch, High Street, (from Great Eastern Street, to Commercial
Street)—carriageway repaved with new 7'1 by 3 " granite and old
pitchings, all on concrete, £376 8s. lOd.
Goldsmith How, (by Hackney Road)—crossing repaved with old
granite pitchings on concrete, £7 18s. 2d.
Laburnum Street, (by Kingsland Road)—Ditto £7 8s. 4d.
Eagle Wharf Road, (by New North Road)—Ditto £4 17s. 3d.
Ditto, (by Omnibus Yard)—Ditto £2 3s. lOd.
Wilson Street—A portion of channel repaved with old granite
pitchings on concrete, £2 Is. Od.
St. John's Road and Bacchus Walk—(alterations opposite Board
School), carriageway repaved with old granite pitchings, and a
portion repaved with new 7'' by 3'' pitchings, all on concrete,
£184 16s. 4d.
Norfolk Gardens —channels repaved with new 6" by 4" granite
pitchings on concrete, and crossings repaved with old pitchings,
£60 7s. lid.
Horse Shoe Alley—carriageway repaved with old redressed granite
pitchings on concrete, and tram refixed, £18 3s. lid.
Goldsmith Row, (by the Children's Hospital)—carriageway repaved
with wood blocks on concrete, by " The Improved Wood Paving
Company," £164 0s. Od.
The carriageway or channel paving in the following localities is
in a most unsatisfactory condition, and should be repaved (or steam
rolled as required) to prevent danger to traffic—
Alma Street
Bateman's How