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CLEANSING & WATERING.
The principal paved streets are cleansed daily, and the others not less
than twice a week.
During the past season, the whole of the streets, &c., have been constantly
watered by the Contractors with water from the East London Water
Works.
RENUMBERING STREETS, &c.
At the request of the Board, the Metropolitan Board of Works have
made orders lor re-naming the following thoroughfares, and for re numbering
the houses therein, viz.:—
The whole of the thoroughfare known by the names of Cable Street,
New Road, and Back Road, in the respective parishes of St. Mary, Whitechapel,
St. George-in-the-East, St. Paul, Shadwell; and the Hamlet of Rat.
cliff, to be called Cable Street only, and the houses re-numbered.
The houses in Gill Street, Limehouse, to be re-numbered.
The houses in Gun Lane, Limehouse, to be re-numbered, and the subsidiary
names to be abolished.
The whole of the thoroughfore known as Henry Street and Carr Street,
in the Parish of Limehouse, and the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town, to
be called Carr Street, and the houses re-numbered.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Limehouse.—Narrow Street.—Great inconvenience having arisen
to the traffic from the narrowness of the portion of this street near Messrs.
Dowson & Worth's premises, after consideration the Board determined to