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Mile End 1889

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

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15 SEPT., 1889.
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(3) That your Surveyor read a letter as follows :
Pemberton Barnes Offices,
29, Mile End Road,
nth September, 1889.
Dear Sir—In answer to yours of the 9th inst. we have not at
present prepared any plans ot the new buildings on the ground at the
corner of White Horse Lane but we shall have much pleasure in submitting
them to you, when we take the matter in hand.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) JAMES ANDREWS.
J. M. Knight, Esq.
(4) That your Clerk submitted and your Committee considered
an estimate for the half-year ending Lady day next as follows
and which your committee recommend for adoption.
Labour on roads £i ,600
Tools 25
Road materials—Flint, Hoggin, and
Granite 600
Lime and Cement 50
New Paving 1,000
Fuel for Roller 20
Smith's work 120
Oil & candles 20
Name plates 6
Plumber 20
Gas for Establishment 16
£3,477
LIGHTING.
Lighting for public lamps £1,640
Meter lamps 70
New lamp posts 45
£1,755
(5) That your Clerk submitted and your Committee considered
a letter of the 13th instant from the London County Council
stating that an application had been made to that Council by
Mr. Robson for permission to erect a clock tower and public
drinking fountain in front of the People's Palace, Mile End
Road as shown on accompanying plan and your Committee
resolved to reccommend—That the London County Council
be recommended not to accede to the request as the proposed
erection is to be partly on the public footway.
rowland hirst.
Signed j. lofius.
j. t. calton.
Moved by Mr. Lofius seconded by Mr. R. Kemp and resolved—That
the Report be received.
Resolved—That the Report be considered seriatim,

(2) That your Clerk submitted the following Accounts duly certified and approved, which your Committee recommend for payment, viz:

Great Eastern Railway Co.Carriage of Refuse £421711
Laying on Gas and supply of water at Mile End Dust Wharf 2114
4593
Hunter, W. & J. R.Jarrah Wood5128
Knight, J.Tares for Horses2000
Manuelle, A. & F.On account of'contract for 10,000 feet of York Paying24619
Tees Scoriae Brick Co. (Ltd.)Blocks for channelling and crossings73159
County Fire OfficeInsurance of VestryHall, furniture, stables & premises, horses, plant, &c., £11,80010143
Crow, E. & SonOn account of contract for cleaning, &c., Vestry Hall and Offices4000
Durston & Co.Cleaning &c. blinds of Vestry Hall as per contract11146
Newton, J. (Collector)Rates on Vestry Hall 976
,, Mile End Dust 'Wharf 820
,, Destructor and shed150
Stainforth, E. J. (Collector)One quarter —1846
Rates on premises, Canal Road, one quarter646
Cundick, B. (Collector)Rates on Riga Wharf, one quarter976