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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The Company are in like manner to pay the cost of lowering the
carriageway and footpaths of Coventry Street, so as to give a clear
headway of 11 ft. 6 in., and of making the necessary alterations to the
approaches, and of paving and making good the part of the street
altered.
The bridge for carrying the additional lines of rails over Buckhurst
Street is to have a clear headway of 12 ft. 6 in., and a span of at least
30 ft. measured on the square, and the Company is to set back the
abutment of the existing arch to the general frontage of the houses on
the east side of the street, and alter tho existing arch so as to give a
clear headway throughout tho entire width of tho street of 12 ft. 6 in.
LIGHTING, SEWERS, ROADS,
AND RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING.
The additions to, and alterations of public lamps, the reduction of
price by the Gas Light and Coke Company, and the reduction of the
hours of burning, are stated in the Surveyor's Report; as are also
the particulars as to maintenance and cleansing of the sewers, as to
construction of new sewers, as to maintenance of roads and paving
repairs, and as to re-naming and re-numbering streets.
PARMITER'S CHARITY.
Mr. Thomas Watson Francis, of No. 2, Hackney Road, and Mr.
James Valentine Jones, of The Oval, Hackney Road, two of the
members of the Vestry, have been elected two of the Governors of the
Charity pursuant to section 5 of the new scheme, which provides
that two of the twelve Governors shall be elected by the Vestry. The
term of office of the Governors so elected is five years.
NEW VALUATION LIST.
It was referred to a Committee, consisting of Messrs.
Abbott Edroff Hilditch Norris
Barnard Ewin Jones Pickard
Baugh Forrest Lamb Smither
Bishop Francis Luckhurst Staines
Tliurgood
to prepare the new Quinquennial Valuation List in conformity with
the provisions of the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869.