Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1897
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New Oxford Street east of its junction with Blooms-
bury Street.
Do. by Hart Street.
Do. west end, by Tottenham Court Road.
Do. at junction with Charing Cross Road.
Russell Square by Southampton Row.
Shaftesbury Avenue by New Oxford Street.
Do. opposite French Church.
Do. „ 212, Shaftesbury Avenue.
Do. „ north - west corner of
Broad Street.
Do. „ Dyott Street.
Do. west of Endell Street.
Do. opposite Clarke's Buildings.
Do. „ south-east corner of High
Street.
Do. by Great St. Andrew Street.
Do. by Little Earl Street.
Theobald's Road west end, by Southampton Row.
Tottenham Court Road south end, by New Oxford Street.
The following information with respect to the St.
Giles District may be of interest:—
Its superficial area is about 245 acres.
Length of public ways, 15 miles 7 furlongs.
Total length of public and private ways, 16 miles.
The superficial area of carriage-ways is 47 acres, 1 rood, 247 yards.
Do. do. footways is 24 do. 0 do. 321 do.
The total area of public-ways 71 do. 1 do. 568 do.
Total number of public lamps 1,160
Do. guard-posts 326
Do. trees 171
Do. water-posts 9
Do. street gullies 1,075
Do. sewer air-shafts to local sewers opening
on to the street surface 234
Do. over main sewers do. do. do. 48
Do. up-cast shafts to local sewers carried
up the fronts of adjacent buildings 21
Do. manhole covers over sewers, tanks, &c. 37
Do. manhole covers over subways belonging
to the London County Council 14