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Shoreditch 1883

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

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58
Bevenden Street
Craven Street
Goldsmiths Row
Grange Street
Hoxton Square
Hoxton Street (narrow portion)
Ivy Lane
Laburnum Street (portion of)
Napier Street
New Inn Yard
Skoreditch, High Street (portions of)
Upper John Street
Westmoreland Place
Two paviors on average and their labourers were employed in
repairing the paved roads, and over trenches opened by the Gas and
Water Companies and Post Office Telegraphs; their wages for the
year amounting to £461 18s. 9£d. The Companies contributed
£172 Is. 9d. for labour, and £247 17s. 9d. for material required
in the said repairs.
There are about fifty-one miles of carriageway in the Parish,
twelve being paved and the remaining portion MacAdam or
Ballast.
FOOTWAY PAYING.
The following works at the cost stated have been executed by
the contractor during the past year—
Norfolk Gardens, (by Curtain Road—A portion repaved with new
23-inch york, and re-squared old stone, £101 16s. lOd.
Old Street, (from Curtain Road to Charlotte Street)—re-paved with
new 3-inch york, and re-squared old stone; new 7-inch granite
curb fixed, and a portion of old re-fixed, £63 7s. lOd.
Wilks Place, Iloxton—re-paved with re-squared old york stone, and
curb re-fixed, £20 13s. 3d.
Wimbourne Street—re-paved with new 3-inch york, and re-squared
old stone; old granite curb re-dressed and un-dressed, and a
portion of new 6-inch curb fixed, £216 fcs. 5d.