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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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In the last-mentioned year, however, the Overseers objected
to pay certain items included in the order, and the Vestry were
obliged to take proceedings, and applied to a magistrate for a
distress warrant. The magistrate held that the order of the Vestry
was invalid, and expressed an opinion that the original method
of ordering the amount to be paid out of the poor rate was the
proper one. Since that time the old method has been reverted to.
The expenses of the annual elections have been as follows : —
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1836 | 58 | 15 | 6 | 1869 | 35 | 10 | 9 |
| 1857 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 1870 | 32 | 11 | 4 |
| 1858 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 1871 | 41 | 19 | 4 |
| 1859 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1872 | 66 | 6 | |
| 1860 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 1873 | 34 | 4 | 5 |
| 1861 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 1874 | 35 | 13 | 6 |
| 1862 | 17 | 18 | 0 | 1875 | 62 | 4 | 9 |
| 1863 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1876 | 76 | 1 | 11 |
| 1864 | 31 | 3 | 9 | 1877 | 50 | 3 | 3 |
| 1865 | 32 | 7 | 6 | 1873 | 62 | 6 | 0 |
| 1866 | 60 | 15 | 10 | 1879 | 60 | 11 | 6 |
| 1867 | 73 | 8 | 3 | 1880 | 25 | 19 | 0 |
| 1868 | 91 | 9 | 10 | 1881 | 39 | 4 | 0 |
The business cast upon the Vestry by the Act of 1855,
rendered it imperative, if it were to be conducted with anything
like propriety, that there should be a proper place of Meeting for
the Vestry and the Committees, with the requisite rooms for the
Officers.
Vestry
Hall and
Offices.
The Town House, in which meetings had been formerly held,
was found wholly unsuitable for the purpose, and therefore in
1857, the question of providing proper accommodation was brought
forward, and referred to a Committee.
It was found rather a difficult matter to secure an eligible
site on reasonable terms, but in 1860, the Vestry purchased from
the Guardians of the Poor of the Hamlet, a piece of ground in
Bancroft Road, and thereon the Vestry Hall was built.