London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Bethnal Green 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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23
SEWERS.
About 150 ft. additional 12-in. pipes were laid in Collingwood Street,
to communicate with the sewer in Boundary Street.
Two hundred ft. of 9 in. pipe have also been laid to connect the gullies
in Nelson Street with the nearest sewer.
Eighty-five private drains have been connected with the sewers.
Sewers have been opened for cleansing and repair in the following
Streets:—
Digby Street.
Abbey Street.
Pollard Row.
Sewardstone Road.
Lansdowne Place.
Hare Street.
Minerva Street.
Sydney Street.
Sclater Street.
Totty Street.
Lessada Street.
Squirries Street.
Little Anchor Street.
George Street, Old Bethnal Green
Road.
Nelson Place, Peter Street.
Elizabeth Street.
Bonner Lane.
The sum of £308 1s. 3d. has been paid to the East London Water
Company for watering Streets, and the sum of £5 5s. for water supplied
to Urinals. The cost of flushing the several Streets amounts to £21 15s.
LIGHTING.
The following additional Lamps have been fixed under arches and
bridges of the Great Eastern Railway Company—fixed and maintained
at the expense of the Company—as follows:—
Nottingham Street.
Tapp Street.
Three Colts Lane.
Coventry Street.
Collingwood Street.
North Street.
Arundel Street.
West Place.
Four columns fixed in Antill Road, and one in Grove Road, opposite
Antill Road; one column at the S.W. corner of Lawfranc Road and
Conyers Street and Medway Street; one column in Conyers Street, about
30 ft. south of Roman Road; one column at St. John Street; one at Three