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Footways.—The footways have been kept in a good state of
repair under contracts entered into by the Vestry.
licenses.
The following licenses have been issued:—
Hoardings 20
Scaffolds 31
Gantry over footway 1
Shores on footway 2
Openings in footway and roadway for various
purposes 42
Inserting coal plates 5
Temporary cart entrances 3
Inserting box in footway 1
Altering position of lamp 1
Laying straw or tan on carriageways 6
New drains 80
Examining drains 7
Unstopping drains 12
Empty gullies 1
Inserting flap upon drain 1
213
The whole of the costs of reinstating paving, constructing
drains, etc., have been borne by the various licensees.
lighting.
The 1,381 lamps in the parish have been properly lighted and
maintained by the Gas Light and Coke Company and H.M.
Office of Works.
maintenance of sewers and gullies.
All the brick and pipe sewers have been flushed, cleansed, and
disinfected, and the gullies have been regularly emptied, disinfected
and flushed with water.
Gullies have been reconstructed in the following streets:—
Ashley-place Lane's-cottages
Black Dog-alley Little Queen-street
Bentinck-street Montpelier-place
Bessborough-place Ponsonby-terrace
Carlisle-place Prince's-gate
College-mews Princes-street
Clarke's-cottages Regency-street
Ennismore-gardens-mews Stafford-place
Grey Coat-street Vauxhall-bridge-road
Horseferry-road Victoria-street
Hudson's-terrace Walcot-street
Johnson-street Wood-street