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In this service, but including the streets,
38,111,835 gallons of water were used, and many
thousand gallons of disinfectants were employed.
Forty-seven places were so treated in the East
District ; thirty-six in the Middle District; and
eighty-four in the West District. Total 167.
The entrances to forty-one courts were cleansed
and lime-washed, viz.: twelve in the East
District; four in the Middle District; and
twenty-jive 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 cause
great annoyance to the public unless promptly
dealt with.