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Bethnal Green 1885

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

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The Quarterly Reports of the Public Analyst for the year ended
Lady-day, 1886, will be found on page 27.
TREASURERS.
In May, 1885, Mr. Beven, who had been a member of the Vestry
since its creation, retired, and the vacancy thereby occasioned in
the office of Treasurer was supplied by the election of Mr. Joseph
Jacobs to be one of the five Treasurers.
WATERLOO ROAD.
(Reg. v. Little).
As Messrs. Little, the owners of the Saw Mills in the road,
continued to stack timber on the road, it became necessary to proceed
against them by indictment. The indictment was tried at the
Middlesex Sessions on the 29th of May and 5th June, and a verdict
found for the Crown, and the defendants were fined.
USE OF VESTRY HALL.
The subject of letting the Hall was referred to the Finance
Committee, who in September reported and recommended as
follows:—
That there should be a uniform charge of £1 Is. for the use of
the Hall, to be paid to the Yestry before the Hall is used. That
the allowance to be made for removing furniture, cleaning and
any other work incident to the use of the Hall when let shall be
settled in each separate case by the Finance Committee. The
applications for the use of the Hall shall be made in writing and
submitted to the Yestry at its next meeting, but in case of
emergency the Finance Committee shall consider and determine
as to granting any applications and the terms on which it shall
be granted. The Members of the Yestry, the Yestry Clerk and
the other Officers to have a right of entry at all |times. That the
person who applies for the Hall shall be responsible for and shall
make good any damage done to the building or furniture, and if
thought desirable by the Vestry or the Committee (as the case