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Whitechapel 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Whitechapel]
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Sewers Constructed in the District since 1857
The Surveyor, at my request, has kindly favoured me with the following
return of the Sewers constructed at the expense of the Board since 1857
The total length of the new sewers is 20,599 feet; and the particulars are shown on the following: Table
| Length infect | Length in feet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large | Small | Large | Small | |||||
| 1856-57 | Little Prescot st | 317 | Brought forward | 4968 | 5712 | |||
| Leman-row | 260 | 1860-61 | Queen's-st , M E N T | 154 | ||||
| Abel's-buildings | 90 | Rupert-street | 172 | |||||
| Cable-street | 180 | Colchester-street | 210 | 410 | ||||
| 1857-58 | Charlotte-street | 475 | Buckle-street | 290 | ||||
| Crispin-street | 400 | Plough-street & court | 260 | |||||
| Montague street | 680 | 1861-62 | Lamb-street | 310 | ||||
| Brick-lane | 190 | Wheeler-street | 510 | 60 | ||||
| Black Lion-yard | 130 | Phoenix-street | 220 | |||||
| South-street | 340 | Quaker's-st & Spital-st | 495 | |||||
| Shepherd-street | 396 | Spicer-st & Spital-st | 640 | |||||
| 1858-59 | Nil | Osborne-street | 420 | |||||
| 1859-60 | Brown's-lane, John-st | 540 | 310 | Black Lion-yard | 175 | |||
| Pelhain-street | 570 | Deal street | 258 | |||||
| Queen-street (Aldgate) | 360 | Goulston-street | 270 | |||||
| King-street | 250 | 1862-63 | Angel-alley | 118 | ||||
| Freeman-street | 263 | 1863-64 | Princes-street | 1020 | ||||
| Tenter-street | 329 | Thomas-street | 1000 | |||||
| Butler's-street | 255 | Dock-street | 675 | |||||
| Palmer-street | 193 | 1864-65 | North-street | 790 | ||||
| Tilley-street | 200 | Percival's-buildings | 235 | |||||
| Church-st M E N T | 835 | Raven-row | 310 | |||||
| King-street, M E N T | 216 | 1865-66 | Lombard-street | 148 | ||||
| 1860-61 | Corbett's-court | 238 | Fieldgate-street | 100 | ||||
| Flower & Dean-street | 475 | 1866-67 | Wellington-st Bath-st | 476 | ||||
| George-street | 355 | George-st Tower-hill | 203 | |||||
| Thrawl-street | 285 | 9208 | 11391 | |||||
| Upper Keate-street | 210 | |||||||
| Lower Keate-street | 150 | LENGTH CONSTRUCTED | ||||||
| Wilson's place | 145 | |||||||
| Underwood-st Luke-st | 393 | Large size | 9208 Feet | |||||
| Brick-lane | 700 | Small size | 11,391 ,, | |||||
| Carried forward | 4968 | 5712 | Total | 20,599 Feet | ||||