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 St. Giles District]
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the cost of which washing is included in the two items of
cost for street cleansing and street watering given hereafter.
The following streets being market streets, and streets
inhabited by the poorer classes, were cleansed on Sundays
between the hours of 6 and 10 a.m., those streets in the
list marked with an asterisk being cleansed a second time
between 12 noon and 2.30 p.m. After the second cleansing
the streets were watered with a weak solution of permanganate
of potash:—
Abbey Place.
Arthur Street.
Bainbridge Street.
Castle Street.
Colonnade.
Kenton Street.
Little Coram Street and Courts adjacent.
Little Guilford Street.
Marchmont Street.
* Arthur Street.
*Castle Street.
*Church Passage.
*Drury Lane.
*Dyott Street.
*Goldsmith Street.
*Great Earl Street.
*Great Wild Street.
*Little Earl Street.
*Little White Lion Street.
*Little Wild Street.
*Lloyd's Court.
*Lumber Court.
*Macklin Street.
*Neal Street.
* .Newton Street.
*Parker Street.
*Phœnix Street.
*Queen Street.
* Seven Dials.
*Shelton Street.
*Short's Gardens.
* Smart's Building.
*Stacey Street.
*Tower Street.
The following main thoroughfares were also cleansed
on Sundays between 6 and 10 a.m., viz. :—
Bloomsbury Square (south side).
Bury Street.
Charing Cross Road.
Endell Street.
Great Queen Street.
Great St. Andrew Street.
Hart Street.
High Holborn.
High Street.
Little Queen Street.
Little St. Andrew Street.
New Compton Street.
New Oxford Street.
Shaftesbury Avenue.
Southampton Row (from Blooms-
bury Place to High Holborn).
Theobald's Road.
Tottenham Court Road.
Vernon Place.