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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In addition to the ordinary lamps as shown above there are
the following special lamps, viz.:
1 on the Street Rest in Commercial Road East opposite Gill Street.
1 on the Street Rest in Commercial Road East, opposite White
Horse Street.
1 on the Street Road in the East India Dock Road, opposite the
" Eastern Hotel."
1 at the Triangle, Salmon Lane.
1 in Church How, at the entrance to the Church.
The Lamp Post, column and brackets throughout the
District have been (tainted by the Commercial Gas Company.
The Commercial Gas Company have relaid the gas mains
in Thomas Street and Ronald Street, Ratcliff, and Conder Street,
Limchousc,and have also laid a new 3.inch main in Broadbridge
and Shadwell Green, Shadwell.
CLEANSING AND WATERING.
The carriageways and footways of the principal streets
throughout the District arc swept and cleansed daily, and the
other streets every alternate day. In bad weather the whole of
the streets arc cleansed daily, and the Commercial Road and
Last and West India Dock Roads twice each day.
During the season which commenced on the 1st March,
1893, and terminated on the 18th October, 1893, the streets
were watered by the contractors with water supplied by the
Last London Water Works Company, the quantity of water
used during the season being 8,333,000 gallons.
PUBLIC URINALS.
The number of public urinals in the District is 26, containing
99 compartments.
The urinals arc flushed and cleansed three times every clay
by men employed by the Board, the water being supplied by
the East London Water Works Company. During hot and dry
weather it is found necesssary to have them flushed more