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BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
The Vestry of the Parish of St. Leonard, shared,
IN THE COUNTY OF LONDON.
REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR.
WORKS DEPARTMENT,
Surveyor's Office, Town Hall,
25th March, 1898.
Gentlemen,
I have the pleasure to submit the following Report enumerating and describing
the progress of the matters and works which have been entrusted to this Department
during the year ended 25th March, 1898.
The work of repairing the footways, kerbs, paved and macadam carriage-ways
and channels, has been kept steadily in hand during the year. In comparing any
cost of street maintenance with that of previous years, it becomes necessary to take
into account the great increase of the heavy and constant traffic through this Parish
during recent years.
STEAM ROLLER.
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The constant use of the Vestry's steam roller has kept the unpaved roads in a
fairly satisfactory condition, your adoptiou of the suggestion made in my last report,
to extend the granite paved streets where possible, in place of macadam, having