London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Limehouse 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
This page requires JavaScript
No. 17.
to the
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE
DISTRICT.
Department oe Works,
Offices,
White Horse Street,
Commercial Road East.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Report upon the Works executed
in the District from Lady-day, 1875, to Lady-day, 1876.
SEWERS.
New Sewers have been constructed of the following lengths and
sizes, viz.;—
*
PIPE SEWERS.
The opening, Queen Street and Horseferry Branch Road,
Ratcliff.—196 ft. of 18-in. pipe, 285 ft. of 15-in. pipe, 855 ft. of
12-in. pipe, 28 ft. of 9-in. pipe, 3 18-in. Gully Pans, 3 New Grates,
2 New Flushing Boxes, 104 ft. of 6-in. pipe.
Hardinge Street, Ratcliff.—12-in. Pipe Sewer; 126 ft. of
12-in. pipe, 302 ft. of 9-in. pipe, 90 ft. of 6-in. pipe in connecting
house and gully drains.