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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Street, Northey Street, Church Row, Blount Street, Dora Street,
Ben Jonson Road, White Horse Street, and Pelling Street.
Ratcliff.—Parts of Stepney Causeway, York Road, Collingwood
Street, White Horse Street, Belgrave Street, Ben Jonson Road,
Bromley Street, Horseferry Road, London Street, Steel's Lane,
Narrow Street, Stepney High Street, and the whole of Caroline Street.
Shadwell.—Parts of Glamis Road, Cable Street, Wapping
Wall, Lower Shadwell, West Gardens, Milk Yard, High Street,
Sage Street, New Gravel Lane, Coleman Street, Waterhouse Lane,
Labor in Vain Street, Market Hill, Broadbridge, Love Lane, and
Albert Street.
Wapping.—Parts of Nightingale Lane, Church Street, Wellclose
Square, Dock Street, Glasshouse Street, High Street, Upper Last
Smithfield, Redmead Lane, Red Lion Street, Upper Well Alley,
and Prusom's Island.
New carriage-way Paving has been laid down as follows, viz. :—
Limehouse.—Parts of Three Colt Street have been relaid with
second-hand Granite Pitching, also a small part of Dora Street.
The Granite Tram in Three Colt Street has been redressed
and relaid.
Shadwell.—Parts of Coleman Street have been relaid with
second-hand Granite Pitching, and part laid with new ; and the kerb
has been reset.
Wapping.—Parts of High Street have been re-paved with
second-hand stone.
The carriage-way of Nightingale Lane, partly in Whitechapel
and partly in this District has been re-paved with new stone by the
Contractor to the W hitechapel District Board of Works, this Board
paying their proportion of the cost of the work.
MACADAM ROADS.
Parts of the carriage-ways of the following streets have been
made up with broken Guernsey Granite, viz:—Maroon Street,