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Shoreditch 1888

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

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64
CARRIAGEWAY PAVING.
The following works at the cost stated have been executed by
the contractor during the past year : —
Hackney Road, from Shoreditch High Street to Weymouth
Terrace—
Carriageway repaved with new 3 x 7 pitchings, old paving
taken up, re-dressed and relaid, a portion carted from
stoneyard and a portion re-laid only, all on concrete and
grouted £1843 14 10
Goldsmith Row, by Hackney Road—
A portion of Carriageway taken up, re-dressed and re-laid,
and a portion carted from stoneyard all on concrete and
grouted, a portion with pitch, the remainder with Portland
cement £46 0 6
Weymouth Terrace, by Hackney Road—
A portion of Carriageway taken up, relaid and grouted on
dry concrete £16 0 2
Branch Place—
Channel paved with old granite cubes carted from stoneyard,
a portion re-dressed, all laid on concrete and grouted—
£26 19 8
Great Eastern Street, by Refuge, Curtain Road—
A portion of Carriageway taken up, re-laid, and grouted—
£1 3 2
Paved granite crossings (private) as follows: —
Audrey Street £3 14 0
Boundary Street £5 0 4
Three paviors on average and their laborers 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 amounted to £598 6s. 7½d. The companies contributed
£196 18s. 7d. for labour, and £179 11s. 7d. for material required
in the said repairs,