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 Whitechapel]
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The following Table shows the localities which are either entirely without Sewers, or in which the Sewerage is imperfect; and Mr. S. W. I ron has kindly, at my request, made his observations on the state of the Sewerage in the several localities:-
LOCALITIES. | REMARKS. |
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Whitechapel. | |
Angel Alley | 12-inch pipe sewer, very defective. |
Newnham Street | 9-inch pipe sewer only. |
Scarborough Street | Ditto ditto |
Tenter Street (East) | Ditto ditto |
Tenter Street (West) | No sewer. |
Tenter Street (North) | 9-inch pipe sewer only. |
Tenter Street (South) | Ditto ditto |
Alie Place | 6-inch pipe sewer only. |
Gower's Row | No sewer. |
Half-Moon Passage | Small piece of brick sewer only. |
Colchester Street | 18-inch brick sewer, defective. |
Rupert Street | Partly drained by an 18-inch brick sewer, defective. |
Little Middlesex Street | 9-inch pipe sewer only. |
New Castle Street | Brick sewer, very defective. |
Old Castle Street | Ditto ditto |
New Castle Place | No sewer. |
Boar's Head Yard | 9-inch pipe sewer, very defective. |
New Goulston Street | 9-inch pipe sewer, defective. |
Wellclose Square | Brick sewer, defective. |
Grace's Alley | Old pipe and brick sewers, defective. |
Spitalfields. | |
Grey Eagle Street | 18-inch brick sewer, very defective. |
Fashion Street | Old brick sewer, defective. |
Union Court | 18-inch brick sewer, defective. |
Fashion Court | Pipe sewer, defective. |
Princes Street | Brick sewer, defective. |
Wood Street | Ditto ditto |
Wilkes Street | Ditto ditto |
Artillery Passage | Pipe sewer, very defective |
Lower Keate Street | 12-inch pipe sewer, defective. |
Paternoster Row | Ditto ditto |
Mile End New Town. | |
North Place | 6-inch pipe sewer, defective. |
Dunk Street | 9-inch pipe only. |
Buttress Street | Ditto ditto |
Norton Folgate. | |
Fleur-de-lis Street | Old and defective pipe sewer. |
Church Passage | No sewer. |
Chapel Street | Old and defective pipe sewer. |
Aldgate. | |
Burr Street | Old brick sewer, very defective. |
Lower East Smithfield | Ditto ditto |