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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A motion that the persons named be proceeded against was
made, but not carried.
The Report of the Committee off the Whole Vestry with respect
to the Resolution passed at the Abbey Street School did not
recommend any alteration in the Regulations. The Report, after
debate, proposed amendments and adjournments, was approved
and adopted.
URINALS.
.
An Iron Urinal for six persons has been erected on the ground
at the South East corner of Gibraltar Walk and Bethnal Green
Road at a cost, exclusive of fixing, drainage, and paving, of
£85 15s.
Another Urinal, to accommodate six persons, has been put up
in the carriage way of Bethnal Green Road, opposite the Junction
with Sclater street, at a cost, exclusive of fixing, draining, and
other incidental work, of £172.
A recommendation of the Sanitary Committee, that all Public
Urinals in the Parish should have a constant supply of water, was
adopted and carried into effect.
The Vestry have also made arrangements with the Great
Eastern Railway Company for putting a Urinal in Tapp Street,
close to the Bethnal Green Junction Railway Station, on ground
belonging to the Company, and agreed to be let by the Company
to the Yestry at a nominal rent.
RE-NAMING AND RE-NUMBERING STREETS,
LIGHTING; SEWERS WORK, AND ROAD WORK.
Particulars as to these matters are given in the Surveyor's
Report.
NEW STREETS.
The Yestry have made orders for "Paving," at the cost of the
owners of the houses in and of the land abutting on the following