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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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19 FEBRUARY, 1890.
163
(1) That your Committee having inspected the following places
resolved to recommend—That additional Lamps be placed as
follows, at an estimated cost of £$ 10s. each.
One in Passage, from Wentworth Road to Burdett Road.
„ Shandy Street.
„ Knott „
„ Passage, between Duckett Street and Trafalgar
Square.
„ Ely Terrace.
„ Lichfield Road (East end).
(2) That a Refuge lamp with two burners surrounded by kerb
be erected at each end of the improvement being effected at
Harford Street, the estimated cost being £12 each.
(3) That your Clerk read a letter from the London County
Council, as follows :
" London County Council.
" Spring Gardens, S.W.
" 22nd January, 1890.
" Sir,
"COMMERCIAL ROAD.
" I have been directed by the Highways Com"mittee
of the Council, to inquire whether it is the
"intention of the Vestry of Mile End Old Town to
"exercise the power under the nth section of the Local
" Government Act, of claiming to retain the management
"of so much of Commercial Road, disturnpiked since
" 31st December, 1870, as is within the Hamlet of Mile
"End Old Town.
I am, etc.,
(Signed) H. DE LA HOOKE,
" Clerk of the Council.
" The Clerk of
"the Vestry of Mile End Old Town.
"Vestry Hall, Bancroft Road, E."
That your Committee resolved to recommend—That this
Vestry do exercise the power under the nth section of the
Local Government Act, of claiming to retain the management
of so much of the Commercial Road as is within this Hamlet.
(4) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
necessary resolutions be passed for the paving and making up
Georgiana Place at the cost of the owners of property therein.
(5) That your Clerk submitted the reference of your Board as
to the complaints of the erection of two signboards in the
Mile End Road, and your Committee beg to report that one
of such boards has been taken down.
Signed
J. T. CALTON.
J. DRUITT.
W, A, KEMP.