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Bethnal Green 1888

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

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places, viz.:—Medhurst Road, Digby Walk, Thomas Passage,
Cambridge Street, Ion Square, Granby Row, and Eastman Street.
THAMES COMMUNICATIONS.
The Metropolitan Board of Works wrote again in July, 1888,
with reference to the Memorials mentioned in the last Report,
stating that under the then present circumstances and having
regard to the outlay to be made for the Tunnel to be made between
Blackwall and Greenwich, the Board did not see its way to
apply to Parliament for power to provide means of transit
between Rotherhithe and Shadwell.
INQUIRY AS TO IMMEDIATE SANITARY REQUIREMENTS
OF THE PARISH.
The Report of the Inquiry, held by Mr. D. Cubitt Nichols and
Mr. Shirley F. Murphy, with the co-operation of Mr. Forrest and
Mr. J. G. Hilditch, of which a copy was printed in the Vestry's
Report of last year, was referred to a Committee of the Whole
Yestry. The recommendations of that Committee that the Report
should be referred to a Special Committee, to consist of six
Members of the Finance, Works and Sanitary Committees respectively,
was adopted. Subsequently the Chairman of each of those
three Committees was added to the Special Committee.
The Report by the Special Committee was presented to the
Yestry on the 21st March, 1889. It was then ordered to bo
printed and await consideration.
The Report was as follows:—
SAINT MATTHEW, BETHNAL GREEN
EXTRACT
From the Report by Messrs. D. Cubitt Nichols and Shirley F.
Murphy on the Inquiry held by them.
We aro of opinion that the immediate sanitary requirements of the
Parish may be summarised as follows:—