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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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148
5 FEBRUARY, 1890.
erect a lamp opposite No. 259, Commercial Road East, and
your Committee resolved to recommend—That permission be
given to Mr. J. Kavanagh for the erection of such lamp, upon
condition that he gives an undertaking to keep the same alight
all night and to remove same when called upon by the Vestry
so to do.
(5) That your Committee considered an application from Messrs.
Harris & Wardrop, on behalf of Messrs. Mann & Crossman,
for the Vestry to construct a gateway entrance to their
premises at No. 86, Oxford Street, and your Committee
resolved to recommend—That the Vestry construct a gateway
entrance to the premises of Messrs. Mann & Crossman, No.
86, Oxford Street, upon their paying the estimated cost thereof.
(6) That your Committee considered an application of 20th
November ultimo, from Mrs. Bridges for an additional lamp
to be placed in King John Street, and your Committee having
inspected such place are of opinion that King John Street is
already sufficiently lighted.
J. LOFTUS.
Signed w. OCKELFORD.
J. T. CALTON.
Moved by Mr. Loftus seconded by Mr. R. Kemp and resolved
—That the Report be received.
Resolved—That it be considered seriatim.
ERECTION OF LAMPS.
Moved by Mr. Loftus seconded by Mr. E. Kemp and resolved
—That that part of the Report be adopted, and it was
resolved accordingly.
PAVING AND MAKING UP EDGAR PLACE AND DINAH ROW.
Moved by Mr. Loftus seconded by Mr. W. A. Kemp and
resolved—That that part of the Report be adopted, and it was
resolved accordingly:
That the new Street situate in the North Ward of this
Hamlet, and known as Edgar Place and Dinah Row, although
laid out, is not paved to the satisfaction of the Vestry, and
that it appears to be necessary and expedient that the said
Street should be paved.
That the said Street be accordingly paved throughout the
whole breadth of the carriageway and the footpaths thereof,
that is to say, by properly paving such carriageway with
Tees Scoriae Blocks, and by properly forming and paving such
footways with flag-stones and curb.
That the Owners of the houses forming such Street, and c f
land bounding or abutting on such Street, be required to pay
to this Vestry the amount of the expenses, or the estimated
expenses, of the said works, such amount to be determined by