Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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The following amounts have been paid to the Vestry
by the Gas and Water Companies for repairing trenohes
opened by them during the year:—
East London Water Works Company
£229
8
11
Gas Light and Coke Company
118
10
4
Commercial Gas Company
14
16
2
£362
15
5
Trenches,
PAYING WORKS.
In addition to ordinary jobbing repairs, the following
works have been carried out during the year:—
Green Street, from Morpeth Street (Eastward), and
Roman Road, from Twig Folly Bridge to near Grove
Road, carriageway taken up, re-dressed and re-laid,
and the deficiency made up with new stone; also
portions of the footways repaved and kerbed at a cost
of £2031 10s.
Hackney Road, sides of road between Ropley Street
and Warner Place, paving taken up, re-dressed and
re-laid, and deficiency made good with new stone, at a
cost of £446 13s. 3d.
Wood paving at Bishop's Road and Green Street
repaired at a cost of £84 15s. 2d.
Pedley Street.—The old channel removed and a new
channel of 12 X 8 kerb from stock formed, at a cost of
£30 9s. 5d.
SEWERS, &c.
The pipe sewer in Patriot Square has been extended
166 feet eastward.
Patriot
Square.
By agreement with the Great Eastern Railway
Company, a urinal for two persons has been constructed
in Primrose Street in the angle of the railway abutment.
Primrose
Street.
The iron urinal in Teesdale Street, near Hackney
Road, has been removed, and a new one for three
Teesdale
Street.