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Bethnal Green 1888

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

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and resulted in a perpetual injunction being granted against all
the Defendants, but, on account of the position of the Defendants,
without costs.
GREEN STREET IMPROVEMENT.
The Metropolitan Board addressed a letter to the Yestry, as
follows:—
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
28th May, 1888.
Sir,
I have to inform you that the works connected with the
Green Street, Bethnal Green, Improvement, authorised by the
Metropolitan Street Improvement Act, 1883, have been completed,
and that the widened thoroughfare will be opened to the public
this day, and I am further to state that under the provisions of
that Act the care and management of the widened thoroughfare
will from this time forward devolve upon the Yestry of Bethnal
Green.
I am, Sir, &c.,
J. E. Wakefield,
Clerk to the Board.
To the Clerk of the Vestry of
Bethnal Green.
Some Members of the Metropolitan Board, with some of the
Officers of the Board, attended in the afternoon of the day, and
having been met by several Members of the Yestry, proceeded to
declare the widened thoroughfare opened, and public traffio and
the use by the public of the improvement began.
BISHOP'S ROAD.
The purchase of the fore-courts of the Houses, 1 to 19 inclusive,
f has been completed, and the improvement of widening the pavement
carried out.
ARTIZANS AND LABOURERS' DWELLING ACTS.
During the year the Medical Officer of Health has made Reports
under these Acts certifying several properties in different parts of