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Shoreditch 1888
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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Napier Street
Paul Street
Pitfield Street (portion of)
Rushton Street
Upper John Street
Wenlock Street
Wilson Street
The Road Foreman's wages, whose duties include the directing
of the masons and paviors, also the Steam Road Roller, amounted
to £104 5s. 0d. Four 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 £531 15s. 10½d. The Companies
contributed £102 8s. 11d. for labour, and £103 15s. 11d. for
material required in the said repairs. Other contributions for
paving, &c., amounted to the sum of £74 12s. 6d., part of which
was due and paid to the contractor.
The contractor supplied 1800 superficial feet of Victoria patent
stone for use in repairing the footways, at a cost of £52 10s. 0d.,
and 18,000 superficial feet of new 2½-inch tooled York paving, at
a cost of £585 0s. 0d. for the same purpose.
The following quantity of stone, in addition, was re-dressed by piece-work in the yard at the cost stated:—
| 629 feet run granite edge curb | £11 | 15 | 5 |
| 170 yards super old cubes | 10 | 12 | 8½ |
| 230 feet Moor stone | 4 | 6 | 8 |
SEWERS WORK.
The following works, at the cost stated, have been executed by
the contractor during the past year:—
Now Inn Yard—
Re-construction of 190½ feet lineal 15in. pipe sewer, 14 feet
lineal 12in. pipe, 46 feet lineal 9in. pipe, 84 feet lineal
6in. pipe, together with extra bends, junctions, &c., also
four gullies and a new side entrance to same £99 1 0