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Mile End 1890

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

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4 FEBRUARY, 1891. 251
IV . The Report of Committee No. 2 was brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee No. 2.
For Highways, Paving, Lighting and Watering.
Wednesday, 4th February, 1891.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Thursday,
the 29th day of January, ult., there being present Messrs.
Hirst, W. A. Kemp, J. Druitt, J. Brown, Mardorf, Calton,
Ludbrook, Nicholls, and Wood.
(1) That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
That your Clerk read a letter from Messrs. Hammack &
Lambert as follows:
"59, Bishopsgate Street, City,
"London, E.C.,
December 30th, 1890.
"Sir,
"We are instructed by Lord Tredegar to state
" that he is about resuming his freehold tenure of the site
"of the 'Morgan Arms' P.H., Morgan Street, E., to let
"the frontage now occupied by a garden and bounded by
"a wall for a building frontage for shops or private
"dwellings.
"We have reported that your Parish have erected a
"wall from points A to B on tracing herewith, evidently
"to prevent a nuisance at point C.
"Kindly give instructions for the removal of the said
"wall, the erection of which never had his sanction or
"approval, His Lordship's Freehold extending to the
"fence A to B.
"Yours etc.,
(Signed) " HAMMACK & LAMBERT.
"The Vestry Clerk,
"Mile End, E."
and your Committee resolved to recommend—That your
Surveyor be directed to remove the said wall referred to.
(2) That your Clerk submitted Order of the London County
Council as follows:
"London County Council.
"Extract from the Minutes of the Proceedings at a