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Mile End 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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Horse Hire and Slopping.
This work is now also done by horses and men belonging
to and employed by you. The six months
during which you have executed the work has been a
very trying time, but nevertheless the cost of the work
has not been largely in excess of the preceding year.
The disposal of street refuse continues to be a source
of anxiety to all the London parishes which are not
suburban, and although we have at present a shoot at
Hackney Wick, which is calculated to last for another
year, yet the time is not far distant when the question
will require very serious attention, and may probably
have to be treated with a view to the requirements of
the whole metropolis.
The recent legislation respecting the foundation of
houses, and the bye-laws of the Metropolitan Board
made upon the subject, have seriously prejudiced the
course which you have hitherto adopted.
Probably the burning process, which is adopted by
some of the large towns of the North, may have to be resorted
to, but nothing can be so cheap as the course you
have pursued for the past ten years, and as long as a
place of deposit can be found within two miles of the
Hamlet I do not advise any alteration.
The following tables will show the cost of the work
for the past three years.

U npaved C arriageways.

The following List will shew the quantity of material used upon each thoroughfare in the Hamlet, for the year ending March 25th, 1879:

Grvl. Yds.Grte. Yds.Grvl. Yds-Grte, Yds.
Alderney-road01Coutts-road05
Albert-street20Copperfield-road560
Arbour-street, E261Devonshire-street65
Alfred-street13Diamond-row01
Assemblv-passage400Dempsey-street710
Apsley-street50Diggon-street790
Arbour-street, W152Ducket-street02
Albert-square90Ernest-street51
Ann-street09Exmouth-street160
Antill-road380Emmott street40
Arbour-square20Edinboro'-road480
Arbour-place10Friendly-place40
Alna-road960Gloucester-street33139
Ashcroft-road40Grafton street40
Allars-road1080Greenfield-street07
Burdett-road011Gray-street330
Bow Common-lane5102George-place80
Baker-street20Heath-street08
Bedford-street82221Henry-street150
Bancroft-road06Hannibal-road30
Bridge-street17½7Hawkin's-street21
Beaumont-square20Hare-street20
Broomhead-street910Harford-street60
Bale-street02Jubilee-street115265
Beaumont- street710Jamaica-street132
Bloomfield-road390James-street03
Brunswick-place50Johnson-street90
Ben Jonson's-road10King-street30
Crown-place10King John-street50
Canal-road23107Lichfield-road60
Clark-street63Longfellow-road90
Charles-street21Lucas-street126
Coborn-road20Lawton-road10
Carlton-road10Lindley-street01
Copley-street620Lyal-road40
Cottage-grove40Latimer-street10
Com mercial- road40Mile End-road680
Carlton-square10Mary-street01
Clinton-road1022Mulberry street320