Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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16 DECEMBER 1891.
(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 Committee considered an application from
Mr. A. Fleischheuer, for permission to fix a lamp at the
corner of Lincoln Street, Mile End Road, the same to be
kept alight all night, and resolved to recommend—That it be
not acceded to.
(2) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That no
person be allowed to fix or place any notice, advertisement,
or goods, against any lamp-post, trees, tree-guards, or railings,
belonging to, or under the control of the Vestry in any
thoroughfare, without having first obtained the consent of the
Vestry, and that the Surveyor give notice to any person who
may have so done forthwith to remove the same, and in the
event of non-compliance that he be instructed to remove the
obstruction.
(3) That your Committee considered a letter of the 28th
November ult., from the Metropolitan Public Gardens
Association, offering to supply 12 seats to be placed in the
Mile End Road for the use of the public, and resolved to
recommend—That the offer be not accepted.
(4) That your Committee considered the letter referred
by your Board, from the East London Working Men's
Electoral Committee, asking the Vestry to give the men in
the employ of the Vestry half-day holiday on Saturdays, and
beg to report that the men under the control of your Committee,
are receiving half-day holiday on Saturdays as far as
it is possible to so arrange.
Signed
J. DRUITT.
JOHN T. CALTON.
E. NICHOLLS.
Moved by Mr. Calton seconded by Mr. A. Lloyd and
resolved—That the Report be received.
Resolved—That it be considered seriatim.
FIXING PRIVATE LAMP.
Moved by Mr. Calton seconded and resolved—That that
part of the Report be adopted and it was resolved accordingly.
OBSTRUCTIONS.
Moved by Mr. Calton seconded by Mr. A. Lloyd and resolved
-That that part of the Report be adopted and it was resolved
accordingly.