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Mile End 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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54 10 JUNE, 1891.
IV. The Report of Committee No. 1 was brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old I own.
Report of Committee No. 1.
For Finance, Parliamentary and General Purposes.
Wednesday, June 10th, 1891.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Friday,
the 5th day of June, inst., there being present Messrs.
Hasted, R. Kemp, and Lacey.
(1) Financial Statement, Wednesday, 10th June, 1891.
Balance at Bankers £3,905 7 11
(2) That at that and a previous meeting your Clerk submitted the following Accounts duly certified and approved, which your Committee recommend for payment, viz.:
| Ratcliff, J. B. (Registrar) | Copies of entries of births and deaths | £2 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Russell, J. | Repairing thermometer at disinf. cting oven, Riga Wharf | 2 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Commercial Gas Co. | Gas to public lamps | 913 | 18 | 4 | |||
| Ditto | Gas to— | ||||||
| Vestry Hall | 13 | 16 | 8 | ||||
| Riga Wharf | 4 | 13 | 11 | ||||
| Stables, Canal Road | 10 | ||||||
| Coke | 14 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| 40 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Macfarlane, W. & Co. | Repairs to railings at Recreation Ground, Stepney Green | 4 | 7 | 6 | |||
| Girling, J. &: H. | Coals for Establishment (2 tons) | 2 | 14 | 0 | |||
| Newton, J. (Collector) | Rates on— | ||||||
| Vestry Hall | 11 | 17 | 6 | ||||
| Mile End Dust Wharf | 8 | 12 | 7 | ||||
| Destructor at ditto | 1.5 | 10 | |||||
| 21 | 5 | 11 | |||||
| Staiuforth, E. J. (Ditto) | Premises, Canal Road | 6 | 13 | 0 | |||
| Cundick, B. (Ditto) | Riga Wharf ... | 9 | 17 | 11 | |||
| Palmer, A., (Exors of.) | Two horses | 131 | 0 | ||||
| Ginn, D. G. | Ironmongery | 26 | 19 | 0 | |||
| Gt. Eastern Railway Co. | Carriage of refuse | 38 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Gardner, T. & Co. | Small coals | 4 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Steven Bros. & Co. | Supply of urinal for Arbour Square | 56 | 0 | 0 | |||
| East London Water Works Co. | |||||||
| Water for flushing urinals | 3 | 9 | 6 | ||||
| Burnett & Co. | Disinfectants | 21 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Paton & Charles | Carbolic soap | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Griffiths, W. | Re-dressing and re-laying pitching in Commercial Road, on account of Contract | 2749 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Fennings, B. L. & J. | Broken Guernsey granite, balance of contract | 249 | 9 | ||||