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Shoreditch 1887

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

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70
Grange Street
Hackney Road (portions of)
Holywell Row
Ivy Lane and Street
Kingsland Road (portion of)
Laburnum Street
Mintern Street
Napier Street
Paul Street
Pitfield Street (portion of)
Rushton Street
Upper John Street
Wenlock Street
Whiston Street
Wilson Street
Three masons on average and their laborers 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 £420 5s. 4½d. The Companies contributed
£109 13s, 1d. for labour, and £ 192 4s. 1½d. for material required
in the said repairs. Other contributions for paving, &c., amounted
to the sum of £87 os. 7d., part of which was due and paid to the
Contractor.
The Contractor supplied 1,553 superficial feet of Victoria patent
stone for use in repairing the footways, at a cost of £45 5s. 11d.
and 10,000 superficial feet of new 2½-inch tooled York paving, at a
cost of £375 os. 0d. for the same purpose.
The following quantity of stone in addition was redressed
by piece-work in the yard at the cost stated—
One boundary stone 0 1 6
198 feet run curb 3 14 3