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CLEANSING & WATERING.
The principal streets are cleansed daily, and the others every
second day, but in bad weather the whole are cleansed during each
day.
The streets during the season have been watered by the Contractors
with water supplied by the Water Oompany.
LIMEHOUSE CURVE RAILWAY.
The works authorised by the London Blackwall Railway Act,
1877, have been completed, and the Railway is open for traffic.
There arc certain matters as to giving up land &c., not yet
settled with the Railway Company.
GENERAL WORKS.
An additional iron post has been fixed at the West entrance of
Durham Row, Ratcliff, to prevent small trucks being taken through.
Tenders have been received for the Painting of the Urinals,
Posts, Bridges, &c. belonging to the Board with indestructible paint,
and a contract has been entered into for the execution of the works.
A foot Bridge has been placed across Narrow Street, Ratcliff,
to connect Messrs. Baldwin & Hough's Premises, with their new
wharf on the South side of that Street, according to approved plan.
An addition has been made to the iron foot Bridge across
Nightingale Lane, Wapping, partly in the Limehouse District, and
partly in the Whitechapel District, by the London & St. Katharine
Dock's Company, upon terms sanctioned by the said Boards
respectively, and according to approved plans.
Trial holes in connexion with the proposed new relief Sewers
have been sunk by the Contractors to the Metropolitan Board.