Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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120a
24 JULY, 1889.
That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
(1) That your Committee resolved to recommend as follows—
That a contract be entered into for the supply of 1,500 tons
of Broken Guernsey Granite, and that advertisements for
tenders be issued, the estimated cost being £750.
(2) That a two ton horse roller be purchased, the estimated
cost being £22.
(3) That the channels of the following streets be paved with
Tees Scoriae Blocks, viz.:
Garden Street, the estimated cost being £58.
Smith „ „ „ £59.
Dempsey „ „ „ £110.
Allars Road „ „ £67.
King Street „ „ £34.
(4) That your Committee further considered on the reference
of your Board as to the lighting, Stepney Square, and resolved
to recommend—That the present lamp standing in the centre
of Stepney High Street be removed, and that two single
lamps be erected in lieu thereof: one at the south-west corner
of Stepney Square, and the other opposite No. 2, Stepney
High Street, the estimated cost being £2 5s. each.
j. Loftus.
Signed Rowland hirst.
j. t. calton.
Moved by Mr. Loftus seconded and resolved—That the
Report be received.
Resolved—That it be considered seriatim.
granite contract.
Moved by Mr. Loftus seconded by Mr. Padfield and resolved
—That that part of the Report be adopted, and it was resolved
accordingly.
purchase of horse roller.
Moved by Mr. Loftus and seconded—That that part of the
Report be adopted.
Moved by Mr. Cade and seconded by Mr. Browning as an
amendment—That the matter be referred back to the
Committee with a view of using the Steam Roller.
The amendment was submitted to a show of hands and it
was declared by the Chairman to be carried, and was then
put as a substantive motion and declared carried, and it was
resolved accordingly.