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Bethnal Green 1887

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

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19
LEVERINGTON CHARITY.
Of the recipients last year, John Long had died, leaving a
widow qualified to receive the gift, and Ann Johnson had gone
away. The other recipients of last year were found to be
qualified and eligible, and they and Celia Long, the widow of
John Long, were elected recipients for the year. Hannah Eliza
Turrell, of No. 15, Pollard Row, was also elected, out of six
candidates, a recipient for the year.
FOOD AND DRUGS' ACTS.
The Quarterly Reports of the Public Analyst for the year ended
Lady-day, 1888, will be found on page 43.
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY BRIDGES.
The Railway Company submitted for approval plans of the
Bridges to be widened and altered, pursuant to the powers
conferred on the Company as follows:—
Brady Street.
Tapp Street.
Colling-wood Street.
Coventry Street.
Buckhurst Street.
Cambridge Road.
After consideration by the Works Committee, the plans were
approved.
GAS.
The price has been further reduced'by the Gas Light and Coke
Company for gas supplied to street lamps, from 2s. 5d. to 2s. 2d.
per 1000 feet.
The charge by the Commercial Gas Company for each public
lamp, including lighting, painting and repairing, has been reduced
to £3 9s. 0d. per annum.