London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Lewisham 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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49
RATCLIFF-Part of the carriageways of the following
street have been made up with broken granite and rolled with
a 10-ton steam roller, viz.:—
Bromley Street. York Street West.
York Street East
The defective place in the carriageways of the following
streets have been repaired, viz.:—
Portland Street Spring Garden Place
Railway place Walter Street.
GENERAL WORKS
A brick dummy have been conducted in Havering Street
by the Railway.
The East London Water Co. have laid a new main in part
of Easa Street.
Enclosure walls have been built to the two new arches, and
land thrown into the stoneyard in While Horse Street as
compensation for the loss of light and air.
A boundary wall and entrance gates have been erected at
the stoneyard in Gill Street, Limehouse, in place of the old
wood fence.
The courts and alleys throughout the District have been
limewhited.
A dwarf concrete retaining wall has been built at the East
end of Elsa Street, Limehouse, abutting on the Regent's Canal
to prevent the paving sinking.
l dwarf wall in Devonport Street, abutting on James
Place has been repaired, and a blue brick coping built.
The site of the forecourt of No. 37, Church Row, Limehouse,
has been paved and thrown into the footway.
The Trees in the Burdett Road have been trimmed and
four new trees planted in place of those which had died.
The bridges, urinals, tree guards, railings and other property
belonging to the Hoard have been painted.