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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The old and defective brick sewer in Chambers Square,
Wapping, has been broken up and 23 feet run of 9-inch pipe
sewer substituted.
The old brick gully drain in Williams Place and Gloucester
Street, Limehouse has been broken up and 53 feet run of 6-inch
pipe substituited.
I he old and disused brick sewer in Hope Place, Limehouse,
has been filled up with Portland cement concrete.
A flap trap has been fixed to the pipe sewer in Selsey
Street, Limchousc, at its connection with the brick sewer in St.
Paul's Road.
A ventilating shaft has been fixed up the front of No. 7,
Dixon Street, Limehouse.
The brick sewers throughout the District have been cleansed
by men employed by the Hoard.
The small brick and pipe sewers throughout the District
have been Hushed by men employed by the Hoard with water
supplied by the east London Water Works Company.
The gullies throughout the District have been periodically
The gullies in the market places of Three Colt Street,
Salmon Lane and White Horse Street, have during the hot
weather been Hushed daily with water containing carbolic acid.
The London County Council have broken up the defective
sewers and also the pipe sewer in Elsa Street, East of Carr
Street, and constructed a new sewer from Hen Jonson Road
through Halley Street, Carr Street and Elsa Street, discharging
into the low lewel sewer in Rhodeswell Road.
The London County Council have constructed a brick
ventilating shaft in the Rhodeswell Road, to ventilate the
low level sewer.