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Shoreditch 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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Napier Street
Pitfield Street (portion of)
Rushton Street
Upper John Street
Wenlock Street
Three masons on average and their labourers were employed in
repairing the footways and over trenches opened by the Gas and
Water Companies and Post Office Telegraphs; their wages for the
year amounted to £419 9s. 2d. The Companies contributed
£97 14s. 7½d. for labour, and £256 12s. 6½d. for material required
in the said repairs. Other contributions to paving amounted to the
sum of £193 11s. 10d., part of which was due and paid to the
Contractor.
The Contractor supplied 1200 superficial feet of Victoria patent
stone for use in repairing the footways, at a cost of £35 0s. 0d.
and 9,600 superficial feet of new 2½-inch tooled York paving, at a
cost of £312 0s. 0d. for the same purpose.
The following quantity of old stone in addition was redressed by piece-work in the yard at the cost stated—
| 710½ yards super granite cubes | £59 | 4 | 3½ |
| 35½ feet super Moor stone | 0 | 13 | 4 |
| 152 feet run Curb | 2 | 17 | 0 |
| 202 ditto cut out of old tram stone & dressed | 11 | 15 | 11½ |
SEWERS WORK.
The following works, at the cost stated, have been executed by
the Contractor during the past year:—
Nile Stret—90 feet lineal 18-inch pipe sewer, 4-feet lineal
6-inch ditto, together with extra bends, junctions, &o.,
and one side entrance and inspection chamber in
brickwork, £46 10s. 4d.
New urinal outlets, &c., as follows:—
| Union Street | *£2 | 14 | 3 |
| Shepherdess Walk—(making connection) | *5 | 10 | 2½ |
| Grove Walk —(raising wall) | *1 | 4 | 5 |