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Mile End 1882

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

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REPORT.
In presenting their Annual Report for the year ending the 25th
March, 1883, the Vestry must premise it by intimating that there
have not been any works of very great magnitude proposed in any
department, but the Vestry has been engaged in considering and
carrying out numerous projects, which, although attracting less
attention, are equally necessary for the good management and
well-being of the Hamlet. A perusal of the following Report and
of the Reports of the Officers, which are appended thereto, will
show what these have been.
For the sake of convenience of comparison and reference, the
Vestry, in preparing this report, have, as far as possible, followed
the method and order adopted of late years.

The number of Meetings of Vestry and Committees has been as follows:—

MEETINGS.YEARS.REMARK.
1879-80.1880-81.1881-82.1882-3.
Vestry25232222*Excludling the Weekly Meeting of Dusting and Cleansing Committee at the Stables.
Standing Committees93111100*108#
Special „281446
TOTAL146148126136

Meetings.
The largest attendance at any Vestry meeting was 64; the
smallest, 25; and the average, 44.
The Vestry have to record the loss, by death and resignation,
of no fewer than seven of its members.
The deaths were of Mr. C. Moody, Mr. J. Pollard, and Mr.
H. J. Jupp.
The resignations were of Messrs. Abrahams, Noble, Tuckwell,
and Cobb.
Messrs. Moody and Pollard were two of the Vestrymen who
were elected to the Vestry in 1855, and had continued to serve
the Parish ever since that time. They had both taken most
prominent positions in the local government; and the Vestry feel
that by their death the Parish has sustained a great loss.
Mrs. Firth, the Housekeeper, felt called upon, by ill-health, to
resign her position; and the Vestry took into consideration her
application for an allowance. The Committee to whom the
matter was referred reported in favour of allowing her a gratuity
of £10 and a weekly allowance of 3s. 4d., being the proportion
of salary provided by statute in cases of Officers retiring from
ill-health after more than 10 years' service. The matter was
under consideration by the Vestry; but Mrs. Firth died on the
Housekeeper.