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Lewisham 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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Parnham Street, Dod Street, Jamaica Place, Island Row,
Salmon Place, King John's Court, to be re-numbered.
Fore Street and Narrow Street to be incorporated under the
latter name.
Railway Buildings, Limehouse, to be re-named Stocks Place.
Spring Garden Place and Bere Street, Ratcliff, to be re-numbered.
Bath Street, Ratcliff, to be re-named " Thirza Street."
William Street, „ „ "Ronald Street."
Queen Street, „ „ "Medland Street."
Sun Tavern Gap, Shadwell „ "Glamis Road."
Orders have been served upon the occupiers of the houses in
the said thoroughfares to alter their numbers, and where streets
have been re-named new name plates have been put up.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The widening of part of the west Footway of
Birchfield Terrace.—Pursuant to the instructions of the Board,
negociations were entered into with the Owners of the two small
pieces of ground required to effect this Improvement, as to the
price they would respectively require for the same; ultimately it
was agreed to pay them £10 each, on condition that the Board
made the necessary alterations in the iron railings. Arrangements
for carrying out the Improvement are being made.
Proposed Improvement in Ben Jonson Road.—A communication
having been addressed to the Board by the Vestry
of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town, requesting the cooperation
of this Board in a joint application to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, for the opening up and improvement of Ben
Jonson Road, partly in Mile End Old Town, and partly in this
District, as a Metropolitan Improvement, a Meeting was arranged
and took place between Deputations appointed by the Vestry and
the Board, after which the Board resolved to co-operate with the