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In this service, but including the streets,
29,439,551 gallons of water were used, and many
thousand gallons of disinfectants were employed.
Forty-eight places were so treated in the East
District; thirty-seven in the Middle District; and
eighty-jive in the West District. Total 170.
The entrances to forty-jive courts were cleansed
and lime-washed, viz. : twelve in the East
District; six in the Middle District; and
twenty-seven in the West District. A list of
places dealt with are subjoined.
In Lower Thames Street, and especially in
the neighbourhood of Billingsgate Market and
the Custom House, road flushing was freely
employed and deodorants subsequently used at
least twice in twenty-four hours, it being
always difficult to keep the place free from
nuisance caused by the leakages from the fish
carts, which rapidly decompose and smell
abominably, to the great disgust of the traders
and the public.