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combine with other parishes in doing so; and, under the Ac
mentioned, the Metropolitan Asylums Board, with approbation
of the Local Government Board, are empowered to agree with
the Vestries and District Boards of London to receive such
patients, and the Vestry can recover the expenses.
Having gone carefully into the matter the Vestry came to the
conclusion that it would be more beneficial to the Hamlet to
combine with the neighbouring parishes in having a separate
hospital of their own rather than to adopt the provisions of the
above-mentioned Act, for past experience of the mode of conducting
business by the Metropolitan Asylums Board does not
at all betoken economical arrangements. The Metropolitan
Asylums Board have accordingly been informed that the Vestry
do not intend to adopt the provisions of the Act mentioned.
To meet any cases of infectious diseases which may arise
from time to time, until some definite plan is fixed on, the
Vestry has empowered their medical officer to send any cases
which may occur to the Highgate Small Pox Hospital or the
Islington Fever Hospital, as the case may be.
The Board of Works for the Poplar District have built a
hospital for the class of persons named, at Plaistow, and the
Vestry are in negociation with them with reference to a joint
ownership thereof, or some other arrangement whereby the
hospital may become available for the non-pauper persons of
this Hamlet suffering from infectious diseases.
The Great Eastern Railway Company having given notice to
the Vestry that they intended proceeding with the widening of
their line over Grove Road, the Vestry, pursuant to the Great
Eastern Railway Act, 1876, gave notice that they would contribute
£500 towards the cost of altering the Grove Road
Bridge, as provided by that Act. The Vestry of Bethnal Green
passed a similar resolution, and the Company will now have to
reconstruct the bridge so as to give a headway of fifteen feet
and to have one span of forty feet. This will be a very great
advantage to the public, as the present bridge is so low that it
is a source of danger to any one passing under it on the top of
a tramway car or vehicle of a similar height.
The two Vestries have applied to the Metropolitan Board to
contribute half the cost, as the improvement will be for the
benefit of the metropolis, or, at all events, to the whole of the
east end of London, and there is little doubt but that that
Board will contribute as desired.
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Road RailwayBridge