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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1882
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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| Gravel yds. | Granite yds. | Flint yds. | Gravel yds. | Granite yds. | Flint yds. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exmouth-street | 7 | 21 | 0 | Paterson-street | 4 | 12 | 0 |
| Emmott-street | 0 | 0 | 3 | Perth-street | 3 | 23 | 0 |
| Frederick-place | 0 | 3 | 0 | Pole-street | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Grafton-street | 1 | 1 | 0 | Rutland-street | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Grosvenor-street | 5 | 44 | 0 | Redmans-road | 13 | 73 | 0 |
| George-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | St. Peters-road | 28 | 105 | 0 |
| Gardom-street | 0 | 1 | 0 | Stepney-green | 22 | 83 | 0 |
| Heath-street | 0 | 1 | 0 | Sidney-street | 18 | 79 | 0 |
| Hannibal-road | 0 | 2 | 0 | St. Pauls-road | 27 | 68 | 0 |
| Jubilee-street | 34 | 115 | 0 | South-grove | 0 | 11 | 101 |
| Jamaica-street | 62 | 284 | 0 | St. Peters-road | 8 | 30 | 0 |
| Tames-street | 0 | 4 | 0 | St. Dunstans-road | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Lawton-road | 0 | 0 | 1 | Skidmore-street | 28 | 72 | 0 |
| Latimer-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | Shandy-street | 11 | 53 | 0 |
| Mile End-road (the Waste) | 43 | 0 | 0 | Tredegar-square | 13 | 15 | 0 |
| Turner-street | 32 | 108 | 47 | ||||
| Maplin-street | 0 | 1 | 0 | Turners-road | 1 | 7 | 110 |
| Medway-road | 0 | 0 | 2 | St. Thomas-road | 7 | 78 | 0 |
| Nicholas-street | 16 | 43 | 0 | Tillotson-street | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| New York-street | 0 | 0 | 2 | Wellesley-street | 13 | 55 | 0 |
| Nottingham-place | 24 | 0 | 1 | Wades-place | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford-street | 61 | 0 | 21 | Walden-street | 11 | 38 | 0 |
| Philpot-street | 1 | 1 | 0 |
The following tables will shew the cost of road materials, watering,
dusting, scavenging, and removal of dust during the past year:—
ROAD MATERIALS.
| Year ending March, 1881. | Year endingllarch, 1882. | Year ending March, 1883. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yards. | £ | s. | d. | Yards. | £ | S. | d. | Yards. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| 1042½ | Kentish | 363 | 11 | 8 | 363 | Kentish | 72 | 16 | 0 | 581 | Kentish | 147 | 8 | 10 |
| Bag Stone | Rag Stone | Flints | ||||||||||||
| 661 | Ballast and Hoggin | 177 | 6 | 6 | 212 | Kentish | 54 | 15 | 4 | 1318 | Gravel | 329 | 0 | 10 |
| Flints | 2616 | Granite | 2067 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2305 | Granite | 1372 | 16 | 4 | 665 | Ballast & Hoggin | J 163 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| 1933 | Broken Granite | 1108 | 9 | 5 | ||||||||||
| £1913 | 14 | 6 | £1399 | 6 | 9 | £2513 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
WATERING THE HAMLET.
| 1881. | 1882 | 1883. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Horses & drivers | 623 | 15 | 0 | Wages of drivers | 268 | 12 | 0 | Wages of drivers | 231 | 1 | 3 |
| East London Water Co. for 6,591,000 gls. of water | 284 | 19 | 3 | Horse Hire | 63 | 3 | 6 | Horse hire | 97 | 13 | 6 |
| Keep of Vestry Horses=1267 working days | 410 | 9 | 2 | Keep of Vestry's Horses = 1066 working days. | -336 | 9 | 1½ | ||||
| East London "Water Co. for 7,425,000 gls. of water | 316 | 4 | 9 | East London 1 Water Co. for 7,150,000 gls. of water | 308 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| £908 | 14 | 3 | £1058 | 9 | 5 | £973 | 9 | 10½ | |||