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hands of the Council. I am given to understand that my communication
went before the Bridges Committee, who will report to the
Council that these houses be let to the Poplar Board for the next six
months for public health purposes at a merely nominal sum. I have
also written to the Solicitors concerned re the letting of the vacant
Distillery in St. Leonards Street.
"If the Committee should decide to take any houses or buildings
I would recommend that the Contractor to the Board be ordered to
overhaul the drainage, and imbed all the drain-pipes in a good layer
of cement, so that there could be no possible escape and soakage into
the ground of choleraic discharges. The water supply must not be
stored, but be direct from the main.
"I have had an interview with the Clerk to the Metropolitan
Asylums' Board, and he informed me that his Board will find all the
litters, ambulances, and the men to wheel or carry them. I have
arranged with the Medical Officer of the Asylums' Board, who is
organizing the ambulance stations, that one depot where the ambulances
and litters can be kept should be on the little piece of land
belonging to the Poplar Board just off St. Leonard's Street at Coventry
Cross; a temporary shed would, however, have to be erected. A
second depot can be at Hale Street Yard, and a third one at the
Police Station in the Manchester Road. In the event of an epidemic
the whole district would be posted, informing the inhabitants where
the litters were kept.
"Should we have a visitation of Cholera I propose that the Bromley
and Poplar parishes should be divided into seven districts, and that
the boundaries of these should be the boundaries of the Poor Law
Relief and Medical Officers Districts, viz.: East, West, Middle,
Bromley, and South Districts, but that the two last-named districts
should each be divided again into two, the Bromley District by the
North London Railway, and the South District by the Millwall and
North Greenwich Railway as far as the Millwall Dock, and then the
division to be continued by the East Ferry Road: that the Board