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Bethnal Green 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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was proposed that the Vestry should pay a certain sum towards the cost of
filling up the sewer, and the construction of a new sewer in Mile End
instead; but afterwards the Vestry of Mile End found it impossible to do
this. Ultimately this Vestry agreed to contribute £250 towards the cost of
cleansing and constructing a new sewer on the line of the old one, on
condition that the new sewer should hereafter be cleansed, maintained, and
repaired, and exclusively used by Mile End.
CHALET DE NECESSITE.
In February, the Vestry decided to have a Chalet erected as an experiment
on the waste ground at the junction of Cambridge Road and Mile
End road, and it was referred to the Sanitary Committee to make the
necessary arrangements.
The draft of an agreement with the Company was submitted to the
Vestry, and approved. By the agreement the Company is to pay the
Vestry a rent of £10 a year ; and the management of the Chalet is to be
under the control of the Vestry, so as to prevent it becoming a nuisance.
The spot on which it was proposed to erect the Chalet being alleged to
be waste of the Manor of Stepney, the Clerk was directed to communicate
with the Lord of the Manor, with a view of obtaining his consent to a
Chalet being erected.
RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING STREETS.
Application was made to the Metropolitan Board of Works for renumbering
the houses in
Hope street
Minerva street.
Treadway street.
Middle ton street.
St. Jude street.
Three Colts lane.
Suffolk street.
And orders were subsequently made by the Board for naming and
numbering Hope street and Treadway street throughout as Treadway
street; for naming and numbering Suffolk street and Coventry street
throughout as Coventry street, and for re-numbering of Minerva street,
Three Colts lane, St. Jude street, and Middleton street.
GROVE ROAD BRIDGE.
The improvement to the Bridge has been carried out according to the
provisions of the Act of Parliament.

The following is a revised list of charges by the Gas Light and Coke Company:—

Size of Light—Feet per hour.Description.Number of lighting hours per annum.Total.
£s.d.
5 feetSquare4300461
5 „Circular43004104
5 „Square430043I
3 „Square430021810
4 „Square43003126