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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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25 JUNE, 1890.
Moved by Mr. Cushen seconded by Mr. Henley and resolved
That the Report be received.
Moved by Mr. Cushen seconded by Mr. Upton and resolved
That the Report be adopted and it was resolved accordingly.
V. 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, 25th June, 1890.
Your Committee beg to Report that they met on Thursday,
the 19th day of June, inst., there being present Messrs!
Calton, W. A. Kemp, Ockelford, Nicholls, Andrews, Mardorf,
J. Brown, Loftus, Wood, and Collett.
(1) That your Committee proceeded to the election of a
Chairman for the ensuing year, and elected Mr. Rowland Hirst
to that office.
(2) That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
That your Surveyor read a letter from Messrs. Allars Bros,
as follows:
"320, Mile End Road, E.
"27th May, 1890.
"J. Knight, Esq.,
"Vestry Hall, Mile End, E.
"Dear Sir,
"We have just received the a/c for standing
"our vans and carts away, during the Harford Street
" Improvement, the total of which is £3.
"We have not said anything to the loss of time to and
"from, and the inconvenience experienced during the
"time.
"Please remit this amount and oblige,
"Yours faithfully,
(Signed) "ALLARS BROS.
and your Committee resolved to recommend—That your
Board deny liability in the matter.
(3) That your Committee considered an application from the
Hospital Association (Street Ambulance Branch), for permission
to suspend from the bars of lamp-posts near where
their ambulances are stationed, notices stating where the
nearest ambulance is to be found, and your Committee
resolved to recommend—That such permission be granted.