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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Charities.
A copy of the Accounts for the year 1881, signed by
the Rector and Churchwardens, of their expenditure as
Trustees of Charities belonging to this Parish, is printed
in Appendix No. 8.
List of the Duties of the Medical Officer of Health,
Inspectors of Nuisances, Gas Inspector, Assistant Surveyor,
Wharf Clerk, Horse Keeper, Wharf Foreman (Belgrave
Wharf), Clerk of the Works (In-Wards), and Yard
Foreman (In-Wards), having been drawn out by the Vestry
and printed, are to be found in Appendix No. 9, together
with a List of the Duties of the Lamplighters.
During the year twenty-one communications have been
received from the Superintending Architect of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, notifying the applications made for
the consent of the Board to the erection of porticoes, bay
windows, additions, or other alterations to property within
the line of area in this Parish. A list of these communications,
with the opinion of the Vestry, and the decision of
the Metropolitan Board of Works upon each application is
submitted in Appendix No. 10.
Fifty-three applications for permission to build or alter
vaults, areas, dung-pits, and for other works, abutting upon or
under the public way, have been considered by the Vestry.
A list of the various applications, with the decision of the
Vestry, is printed in Appendix No. 11.
Alterations in Names of Streets and Renumbering
of Houses.
Orders of the Metropolitan Board of Works were made
during the year, directing that—