Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]
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Fanshaw Street, by Hoxton Street—
The cubed portion of carriageway relaid on 3" dry concrete and
grouted £15 8 9
Baldwin Street—
Carriageway taken up, cubes sorted and dressed, (worn cubes
sent to stone yard, deficiency made good with dressed cubes
from yard) and laid on 6" conorete and grouted £35 9 11
Grove Walk-
Old Ballast road and channels removed and paved with old
pitchings removed from Hoxton Street and laid on 6" Lime
concrete and grouted £43 2 7
Lower John Street—
Paved with Val de Travel's 1£" Compressed Bock Asphalte on
6" Portland cement concrete £106 11 0
Bowl Court—-
Cost of digging and carting away ground and filling in same
with lias lime concrete to receive cube paving £22 6 3
Paving executed by the G.E. Baihvay Company.
Paved granite crossings (private) as follows:—
45 and 47, Wilson Street *£10 7 6
Baches Street *5 4 1
Mansfield Street *3 11 6
Felton Street *4 6 7
*The whole or portion repaid to the Vestry.
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 £599 2s. 9½d. The companies contributed £270 0s. 6½d.
for labour, use of tools, (tc., and £328 16s. 9d. for material required
in the said repairs.
The contractor supplied 12 tons 18 cwt. of Guernsey granite cubes
for use in repairing the channels and carriageways at a cost of
£18 Is. 2d., and re-dressed 115 super yards of pitchings at the yard at
a cost of £10 l1s. 8d.