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The Overseers, during the year, placed the Vestry Hall in rating
for the first time.
Rating of
Vestry
Hall .
The Vestry considered that the principle was wrong, and
appealed to the Assessment Committee, but they confirmed the
principle as to the propriety of the rating, but reduced the amount
to £150 gross £125 rateable value.
At the request of the Parish Officers, the Vestry have taken
into consideration what amount should be allowed to owners who
contract under the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act,
1869, and resolved that the allowance should be 20 per cent, on
all hereditaments, the rateable value of which should not be
above £15.
Allowances
to
Owners
compounding
for
Rates.
The Vestry have been called upon to put the Artizans and
Laborers' Dwellings Act, 1868, in force, in the cases of 1 to 6,
Regent Place, and 54 and 56, Maplin Street, but they are pleased
to be able to report that the owner has intimated his intention of
pulling down the premises and thus abating the evil.
Artizans
and
Laborers'
Dwellings
Act, 1868
The Vestry have given full consideration to the sanitary requirements
of the Hamlet, and have executed many small but useful
works. The principal work has been the reconstruction of the
sewer at the back of Albert Road.
The sewer was on the boundary between the Hamlet and the
Parish of Bethnal Green, and formed a continuation of the sewer
in Cambridge Road which had already been re-constructed at the
joint costs of Bethnal Green and the Hamlet.
This Vestry accordingly applied to the Bethnal Green Vestry
to join in the costs of re-construction. For a long time the latter
declined to do so, but at length consented.
Sewer
work.
The Vestry have to report with regret the outbreak of another
small-pox epidemic, which necessitated the making of temporary
provision in the Hamlet for the accommodation of persons suffering
from the disease, as the Asylum Board Hospitals were unable
to take in all the cases.
In the previous Report the Vestry noticed that negociations
were in progress to join with the Poplar Board of Works in the
ownership and use of the Hospital built by the latter Board at
Plaistow.
The Sanitary Committee of this Vestry visited the Hospital on
more than one occasion, and went minutely into the cost to this
Hamlet which a joint ownership and occupation would entail,
Small-pox
epidemic.