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Shoreditch 1883

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

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771 feet run Curb 14 9 1½
No, 4 Granite Spur Stones 1 0 0
Special curb for 2 refuges, time and tools 0 12 0
One man was employed at the Vestry's yard issuing instructions
to the workmen, directing the loading and unloading of carts, &c.;
his wages for half a year (after which his services were discontinued)
amounted to £26 16s. 4|d,
SEWERS WORK.
The following works, at the cost stated, have been executed by
the Contractors during the past year:—
Charles Square—262 feet lineal 15-inch pipe-sewer, 302 feet lineal
12-inch ditto, 30 feet lineal 9-inch ditto, 70 feet lineal 6-inch
ditto; together with extra bends, &c., and including £15 2s. 9d.
for house connections made, £226 3s. 0d.
Clifton Street, from Earl Street to Sun Street—212 feet lineal
15-inch pipe sewer, 28 feet lineal 6-inch ditto; together with
extra bends, &c., and including £23 9s. 3d. for house connections
made, £103 10s. 8d.
Upper John Street—One connection to a street gulley, £1 9s. 3d.
Great Chart Street, Pitfield Street End—280 feet lineal 12-inch
pipe-sewer, 36 feet lineal 6-inch ditto; together with extra
bends, &c., and including £17 lis. 5d. for house connections
made, £97 6s. Id.
Private Drain Work—Sixty-five new house drains (from sewer to
line of frontage), reconstructed, openings to unstop sewer, &c.,
£190 4s. 9d.
The sewers in the following localities are in a very
unsatisfactory condition, and should be re-constructed—
Calvert Street
*Livermere Road
Plough Yard
Reeves Place
*Bad fall, owing to the shallowness of the main line sewer in Queen's Road