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Westminster 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]

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Bessborough Gardens
Bessborcmgh Street
Chapter Street
Cobourg Row
Downing Street
Great Smith Street
Great George Street
Horseferry Road
James Street
Lillington Street
Rochester Row
Regency Street
Strutton Ground
Stafford Place
Tufton Street
Tothill Street
Tachbrook Street
Victoria Street
York Street
Princes Gardens
hoarding and road opening licenses.
During the year 55 licenses for erecting hoardings upon the
public highways for repairing or building purposes were granted,
also 168 licenses for opening roads or footways for laying or
relaying drains, repairing water pipes, and other purposes, and 4
for laying down straw. The whole of the cost of relaying the
surfaces disturbed and the construction of drains were charged to
the applicants, as also the cost of straw removal.
The asphalte paving in the parish has continued to give entire
satisfaction, and has been extended by the laying of the following
streets with compressed asphalte at a total cost of £2,682:—
Lillington Street Buckingham Cottages
St. Ermin's Hill Carteret Street
Holland Street and Whister's Ground (now called
Monck Street)
And the following list give the streets throughout the parish
laid with asphalte :—
asphalte.
Laid by
Limmer Asphalte Co.
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Situation.
Artillery Row
Artillery Square
Bennett's Yard
Bessborough Place
Boar's Head Yard
Brewer's Green Mews
Buckingham Cottages
Bull's Head Yard
Carey Place
Carpenter's Buildings
Carteret Street
Cobourg Row
Dean's Place
Delahay Street
Dorset Place
Frederick Street
Garden Street
Grub Street