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Bethnal Green 1889

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

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REPORT
OF
The Proceedings of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal
Green, from the 25th March, 1889, to the 25th March, 1890.
SCAVENGING, REMOVAL OF DUST, AND
WATERING ROADS.
The Special Committee (Consisting of the Members of the Works
and Sanitary Committees), to whom it had been referred to
consider and report as to the execution of the work after the
expiration in August, 1889, of the then current contracts, recommended
that tenders for one, two, or three years should be
advertised for, that the Vestry should provide one man for each
3,200 pails, instead of for each 2,000 pails, which would have
reduced the number of men from eight to five, and that alternative
tenders, viz., for scavenging, watering, and the removal of dust,
for scavenging and watering, and separately for the removal of
dust, should bo invited. The Vestry received the report, but
directed that the advertisements should invite tenders for only
one year, and that the specifications and conditions of the contract
should not provide with reference to men with the pails, but state
that the Vestry will take such stops as they may think necessary
to supervise the removal of dust.
Tenders from nine persons wore received. The tenders it was
proposed to accept were referred to the Works Committee to
consider, and enquire what rate of wages were paid by these persons
who sent up these tenders. The Committee reported that the
contractors had stated when before the Committee that they paid
the men employed by them the rate of wages usual for work of the
kind performed by the men. The Committee recommended the

Table: LIABILITIES.

LIABILITIES.

£
Amount unpaid of Mortgages granted by the latepaving Commission, and chargeable on the General Rate7200
Balance of Mortgage for £20,000, borrowed from the Metropolitan Board of Works in March, 1878, for defraying the cost of Paving the Carriageways of various streets, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 15s. per8000
Balance of Mortgage for £15,000, borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Work- in March, 1880, £13,000 for defraying the cost of Carriageway Paving, and cost of Footway Paving between the Parks, and £2000, for constructing Mortuary, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 15s. per Cent. per annum7500
Balance of Mortgage for £14,000, borrowed of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works in November, l881, for defraying the Cost of Paving the Carriageways of various .streets, to be. paid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 15s. per Cent, per annum8400
Balance of Mortgage for £4500, borrowed of the Metropolitan Hoard of Works in March, 1882, for purchase of property in Digby Street, and to be rapaid by fifty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 10s. per cent. per annum3780
Balance of Mortgage for £15,000, borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Works in October, 1883, for defraying the cost of Paving the Carriageways of various streets, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 10s. per cent. per annum10,500
Balance of Mortgage for £6000, borrowed of the MetropolitanBoard of Works in April, 1885, for defraying the cost of Paving the Carriageways of various streets, and to be repaid twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 10s. per cent. per annum4500
Balance of Mortgage for £2100, borrowed of the Metropolitan Board of Works in December, 1887 for defraving the cost of Paving the Carriageways of various streets, and to bo repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 10s. per cent. per annum1890
Balance of Mortgage for £900, borrowed of the MetropolitanBoard of Works in March, towardsdefraying cost of the Green street Improvement, and to be repaid by twenty equal annual instalments, with interest at £3 10s. per cent. per annum810
£52,580