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 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-road | 0 | 1 | Coutts-road | 0 | 5 |
Albert-street | 2 | 0 | Copperfield-road | 56 | 0 |
Arbour-street, E | 26 | 1 | Devonshire-street | 6 | 5 |
Alfred-street | 1 | 3 | Diamond-row | 0 | 1 |
Assemblv-passage | 40 | 0 | Dempsey-street | 71 | 0 |
Apsley-street | 5 | 0 | Diggon-street | 79 | 0 |
Arbour-street, W | 15 | 2 | Ducket-street | 0 | 2 |
Albert-square | 9 | 0 | Ernest-street | 5 | 1 |
Ann-street | 0 | 9 | Exmouth-street | 16 | 0 |
Antill-road | 38 | 0 | Emmott street | 4 | 0 |
Arbour-square | 2 | 0 | Edinboro'-road | 48 | 0 |
Arbour-place | 1 | 0 | Friendly-place | 4 | 0 |
Alna-road | 96 | 0 | Gloucester-street | 33 | 139 |
Ashcroft-road | 4 | 0 | Grafton street | 4 | 0 |
Allars-road | 108 | 0 | Greenfield-street | 0 | 7 |
Burdett-road | 0 | 11 | Gray-street | 33 | 0 |
Bow Common-lane | 5 | 102 | George-place | 8 | 0 |
Baker-street | 2 | 0 | Heath-street | 0 | 8 |
Bedford-street | 82 | 221 | Henry-street | 15 | 0 |
Bancroft-road | 0 | 6 | Hannibal-road | 3 | 0 |
Bridge-street | 17½ | 7 | Hawkin's-street | 2 | 1 |
Beaumont-square | 2 | 0 | Hare-street | 2 | 0 |
Broomhead-street | 91 | 0 | Harford-street | 6 | 0 |
Bale-street | 0 | 2 | Jubilee-street | 115 | 265 |
Beaumont- street | 7 | 10 | Jamaica-street | 13 | 2 |
Bloomfield-road | 39 | 0 | James-street | 0 | 3 |
Brunswick-place | 5 | 0 | Johnson-street | 9 | 0 |
Ben Jonson's-road | 1 | 0 | King-street | 3 | 0 |
Crown-place | 1 | 0 | King John-street | 5 | 0 |
Canal-road | 23 | 107 | Lichfield-road | 6 | 0 |
Clark-street | 6 | 3 | Longfellow-road | 9 | 0 |
Charles-street | 2 | 1 | Lucas-street | 1 | 26 |
Coborn-road | 2 | 0 | Lawton-road | 1 | 0 |
Carlton-road | 1 | 0 | Lindley-street | 0 | 1 |
Copley-street | 62 | 0 | Lyal-road | 4 | 0 |
Cottage-grove | 4 | 0 | Latimer-street | 1 | 0 |
Com mercial- road | 4 | 0 | Mile End-road | 68 | 0 |
Carlton-square | 1 | 0 | Mary-street | 0 | 1 |
Clinton-road | 10 | 22 | Mulberry street | 32 | 0 |