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Report
OF THE
Proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green,
from the 25th March, 1882, to the 25th March, 1883,
SCAVENGING.
The Vestry advertised for tenders for the execution of scavenging
work and watering from the 10th August, 1882, to 10th August, 1883,
The tender of Mr. Stephens for district No. 1, at £1,600, and the
tenders of Mr. Parsons for districts Nos. 2 and 3, at respectively
£1,820 and £1,928 were accepted. The total amount of the tenders is
£255 less than the total amount of the tenders for the year ended 10th
August, 1882.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The necessity for widening Green street has been long felt, and it
has steadily become greater with the increase of buildings and
population in and around the eastern part of the parish. At a public
meeting, at which Mr. Churchwarden Bishop presided, held in the
Vestry Hall on the 1st February, 1882, a deputation was appointed to
wait on, and to present to, the Vestry a memorial asking the Vestry to
set before the Metropolitan Board of Works the danger and inconvenience
arising from the extreme narrowness of parts of Green street,
and to urge that Board to take steps to remedy the evils. It appeared
to the Vestry the time had come for the widening of Green street being
effected by the Metropolitan Board of Works as a metropolitan
improvement. The Vestry had the traffic through Green street taken