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 Limehouse]
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Wapping—High Street.
Old carriage-way paving has been relaid in the following places, viz.—
Limehouse—Part of tramway, Three Colt Street.
Ratcliff—Part of Hull Lane, Perrywinkle Street, School House Lane,
and Broad Street
Sua dwell—King David Lane and Star Street.
Wapping—Brewhouse Lane, and Wapping Dock Street.
Paved crossings have been laid in Salmon's Lane, Dalgleish Street,
Margaret Street, and York Road.
The dead-house in Dorset Street, Ratcliff has been enlarged and paved
at the request of the Trustees of the Hamlet of Ratcliff.
CLEANSING.
The unpaved roads and streets in the district have been swept twice a
week ; the principal paved streets daily, and the minor ones every two days.
WATERINC.
The streets and places in the district have been watered daily by the
Contractors, with water supplied by the East London Water Works
Company during the past season.
LIGHTING.
The number of the public lamps in the district is 669,being an increase
of eight on the number reported at Lady-day, 1864. Several alterations
have been made in the situation of the lamps in various parts of the district.