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Poplar 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]
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of the 3rd Commission—October, 1849, to October, 1851), that it is
impossible to trace in any way the sanction for the laying down of
sewers or drains.
It will be remembered that all combined drains laid down in the
days of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers were sewers until
the passing of the Act of 25 & 26 Vict,, cap. 102, section 112.
In the case of Oriental Terrace, from the above table it will be
seen that the list would be found in the "Original Papers" (i.e.,
Court and General Purpose Committees papers bound together)
about the 21st October, 1848. At a meeting of the Court held 14th
December, 1848, among the papers presented is one under the
following heading:—
" Metropolitan Sewers.
"Petitions presented in the Holborn and Finsbury Divisions
from Nov. 1st to 30th, 1848, and reported by the Surveyor
to be regular."
(Here follow the petitions for those divisions.)
Now comes the Tower Hamlets Division, and among a number of petitions under the same heading is found one from Mr. G. J. Gladstone, and is as follows :—
| Name. | Drain. | Sewers. | Drains. | Flaps. | Place. | Contributions paid. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ft. | No. | No. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| G. J. Gladstone | 300 | 1 | Oriental Terrace Grundy Street Poplar | — | — | — | ||
| And under the heading of " Total " is entered :— | ||||||||
| 416 | 5585 | 104 | 2 | 42 | 16 | 0 | ||
This entry is to be found in a volume which is very bulky and
dusty, and the cover greatly dilapidated.