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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22 JULY, 1891.
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, 22nd July, 1891.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Thursday,
the 16th day of July inst., there being present Messrs.
Hirst, Calton, Wood, Loftus, and W. A. Kemp.
That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
(1) That your Committee have had under consideration a
claim for compensation by Mr. A. E. Cordes for an alleged
accident, near No. 150 Roman Road, and resolved to recommend—That
your Board deny any liability in the matter.
That your Committee considered claim for compensation
from Messrs. Phelps, Margetson & Co., Solicitors, on behalf
of Mr. John Stacey, for an alleged accident in February last,
at the junction of Cambridge Road and Mile End Road, and
resolved to recommend— That your Board deny any liability
in the matter
(2) That your Committee have considered the reference of
your Board, and having inspected Arbour Square resolved to
recommend—That no alteration be recommended to the
London County Council in the present numbering or naming
of Arbour Square, East Arbour Street, and West Arbour
Street.
(3) That your Committee having inspected Perth Street
resolved to recommend—That the roadway thereof be paved
with lees Scoriae Bricks, the estimated cost being £200.
(4) That your Committee having inspected Jamaica Street
resolved to recommend—That the channels thereof be paved
with Tees Scoriae Bricks, the estimated cost being £189.
(5) Thar your Committee having inspected Bedford Square
and Rutland Street resolved to recommend—That additional
Lamps be placed
(a) one in Bedford Square,
(b) „ Rutland Street,
the estimated cost being £2 each.
(6) That your clerk submitted copy of the judgement of the
Queens Bench Division in the case of Fortescue v Bethnal
Green Vestry, on the subject of Encroachments on Highways
and your Committee resolved to recommend-That application
be made to the London County Council to inchde in