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Bethnal Green 1889

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

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automatic machines on the footways in various parts of
the Parish, and no notice being taken of several requests
for their removal, instructions were given that they
should be impounded, when the Company removed
them themselves.
Macadam
Roads
The following roads have been made up with broken
granite and steam-rolled:—
Anglesea Street
Artillery Street
Bonner Road (Bishop's
Road to Approach Road)
Coventry Street
Cranbrook Street
Collins Place
Collingwood Street
Cudworth Street
Daniel Street
Gloucester Street
Havelock Place
Menotti Street (between
Cheshire Street and
London Street)
Morpeth Street
Mount Street
Now Tyssen Street
Newport Street
Oval (part)
Oxford Street
Old Ford Road (part)
Palm Street
Preston Street (part)
Ravenscroft Street
Selby Street
Tagg Street (part)
Turin Street
Virginia Road (Austin
Street to Boundary
Street)
Small repairs have also been executed in the following
Streets, and the patches rolled with the steam roller:—
Antill Road
Arundel Street
Baxendale Street
Durant Street
Hague Street
Mace Street
Minerva Street
Middleton Street
Quilter Street
St. Jude Street
Wimbolt Street
Great destruction is caused to macadam roads by
children digging up the stones, especially on the roads
which have just been made up and rolled.