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Bethnal Green 1889

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

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acceptance of Mr. Crane's tender for No. 1 district at £1,760, and
the tender of Mr. Stevens for Nos. 2 and 3 districts at £3,400, and
the recommendation was adopted, and Mr. Crane and Mr. Stovens
entered into contracts accordingly.
In January, the Sanitary Committee reported the non-removal
of dust from Nos. 2 and 3 districts, and submitted a list of the
various cases of neglect, and recommended that fines of 10s. in
respect of each street from which on any day mentioned in the list
there had been neglect to remove the dust be imposed. The
recommendation of the Committee was adopted, and fines amounting
to £66 10s. were imposed, and deducted from the money payable
under the contract.
NEW STREETS.
The Vestry have made orders for paving at the cost of the
owners of the houses in and of the land abutting on the following
places, viz.:—
Havelock Place Margaret Place
Godfrey's Place Gale's Gardens
8weet Apple Square Skinner's Court
Victoria Mews Prospect Terrace
North Place
STREETS REGULATIONS.
The Streets Regulations Committee sent up to the meeting of
the Vestry on the 4th April, 1889, a Report which was considered
on the 9th May following. The Report, after giving some
particulars of the progress of the work of giving effect to the
regulations, stated that the Committee, being desirous of knowing
the views of shopkeepers and costermongers, invitod to a conference
a number of tradesmen in Brick Lane, Sclater Street, and other
parts of the Parish and some costermongers, to ascertain their
views as to the existing Sunday Morning Regulations. Nineteen
shopkeepers attended, but no costermongers. The latter, it
appeared, were satisfied with and conformed to the regulation
requiring them to remove and clear away by 11 o'clock on Sunday
mornings. The Report further stated that the greneral feeling of

R ATES MADE BY THE VESTRY.

LADY-DAY, 1889—
Poor Rate at 0s.11d. in the £.ls. 7d.
General Rate at 0s. 6d.
Sewers Rate at 0s. 2d. £
MIDSUMMER, 1889—
P«itir Rate at 0s. l0d. in the £.1s. 6d.
General Rate at 0a. 7d. ,,
Sewera Rate at 0a. 1d. ,,
MICHAELMAS, 1889—
Poor Rate at 0a. 9d. in the £.1s. 4¾d.
General Rate at 0a. 7d.
Compoaition Rate at 0s. ¾d. ,,
CHRISTMAS, 1889—
Poor Rate at 0a. l0d. in the £.1s. 5d.
General Rate at 0a. 7d. ,,
Tatal Rates in the £ for the year5a. 10¾d.