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PUBLIC URINALS.
The number of Public Urinals in the District is 21.
The Urinals arc flushed ami dean nod three times each day by
men employed by the Board, the water being supplied by the East
London Water Works Company. During the hot and dry weather,
it is often found necessary to have a more frequent cleansing.
The Urinals in Mill Place Limehouse, West Gardens, and
High Street Shad well, Upper East Smithfield, and Church Street
Wapping, have been repaired.
WORKS CARRIED OUT BY CAS AND WATER COMPANIES.
The East London Water Works Companv have lowered their
mains in North Street, and Waterloo Street Limehouse, and have
laid a new main in Twine Court, Shad well.
The Commercial Gas Company have laid a new 6-in. main
from Broad Street, along Glasshouse Fields to the premises of
Messrs. Moir & Co.
CLEANSING AND WATERING.
The Carriageways and Footways of the principal streets through
out the District are swept and cleansed daily, and the other streets
every alternate day. In bad weather the whole of the street are
cleansed daily, and the Commercial Road and East and West India
Dock Roads, if necessary, twice each day
During the season which commenced on the 1st March, 1888
and terminated on the l8th October, 1888. the streets were watersd
by the Contractors with water supplied by the Last London Water
Works Company, the quantity of water used during the season
being 4,590,000 gallons.
STREET NOMENCLATURE.
Orders were made by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the
renumbering of the houses in Railway Place, Union Place, and
Wilson Place, Limehouse, and notices were served upon the owners
of the houses in such places respectively, requiring them to paint
0r affix new numbers in accordance with such orders and the same
have been complied with.