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Lewisham 1894

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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the streets are cleansed daily. and the Cormncrcial Red and
East and West India Dock Raod twice each day.
Durine the season which commenced. on the 1st March.
1894. and terminated on the 18th October. .1894 the street,
were watered by the contractors with water supplied by the
East London Water Works Company. the quantity of water
used during the season. being 5,029,000 gallons
PUBLIC URINALS.
The number of public urinals in the District it 26, containing
99 compartments.
The urinals are Hushed and cleaned three times every day
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 necessary to have them flushed more
frequently. The quantity of water used during the year was
4,814,000 gallons.
A new meter box has been fixed to the urinal near the
bridge in Glamis Road, Shadwell,
New brick dummies have been built in the urinals in Broad
Street and Ann Street. Ratcliff.
The asphalte at the entrances to the urinal at the junction
of the hast and West India
dock Roads has been relaid.
Water has been laid on to the urinals at Wapping Dock
Stairs and Wapping New Stairs, Instead of obtaining water for
flushing from the River as before.
The drain of the urinal in London Street, Ratcliff, has been
repaired, and a new meter box fixed.
A new slate urinal with two compartments has been constructed
in front of No. 25, Narrow Street, Ratcliff.