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 Bethnal Green]
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reported that the following streets had been cleansed every Sunday
morning:—
Green-street Fournier-street
Mount-street Bacon-street
Hackney-road Cambridge-road
Brick-lane Bethnal Green-road
Thomas-street Turk-street
Tyssen-street Columbia-road
Mile End-road Hare-street
Virginia-row And York-street
And that the total cost for the fifteen weeks, including disinfectants
and superintendence, was £54 18s. 9d. The Committee recommended
that the work should be carried on throughout the year, and
that they should be authorized to arrange for contracting for the
execution of the work. The recommendation of the Committee was
adopted by the Vestry.
FOURNIER'S CHARITY.
All the applicants were on examination found eligible. The following
thirteen were elected and received the gift:—
Appleton, John, 37, Menotti-street
Baxter, Maria Elizabeth, 27, Squirries-street
Carter, Richard, 2, Hare-court, Hare-street
Cox, George, 21 Alma-road
Delieu, James, 24, Bonner-lane
Larcher, Mary Ann, 11, White-street
Niall, James, 16, Robert-street, Hart's-lane
Oldman, Sarah, 41, Squirries-street
Pack, "William, 6, Virginia-row
Phillips, Abraham, 118, Gosset-street
Poyton, John, 6, George-street, Old Bethnal Green-road
Trigg, Sarah, 14, Matilda-street
Walters, John, 58, Hare-street
LEVERINGTON CHARITY.
The surviving qualified recipients of last year were elected
recipients for this year. To make up the full number of forty the
following four persons were also elected recipients for the year:—
Agombar, John, 13, Viaduct-street
Evans, Mary, 2, Gale's-gardens
Pope, Charles, 2, Alfred-place, Mape-street
Vendome, William, 48, Busby-street