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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196 26 OCTOBER, 1892.
wages of foster and shepherd.
Moved by Mr. Upton seconded and resolved—That that
part of the Report be adopted, and it was resolved accordingly.
X. 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, 26th October, 1892.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Tuesday,
the 18th day of October, inst., there being present Messrs.
Hirst, Andrews, J. Druitt, Robertson, Loftus, Toye, Collett,
and J. Smith.
That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
That having regard to the Report of your Surveyor, your
Committee resolved to recommend—
(1) That a Contract be entered into for supply of 20,000 feet of
3-inch tooled York Paving, to be delivered as required, and
advertisements issued inviting tenders for same, the estimated
cost being .£625.
That your Committee, having inspected Jupp's Road and
Fair Street, resolved to recommend—
(2) That the channels of Jupp's Road be paved, the estimated
cost being £62.
(3) That the channels of Fair Street be paved, the estimated
cost being £58.
That your Committee, having inspected the following
Streets, resolved to recommend—
(4) That the old stone to arise from Ben Jonson Road and
Harford Street, after being re-dressed, be used in Paving the
Roadways of:
(a) South side of Trafalgar Square;
(b) Clinton Road between Mile End Road and Lawton
Road;
(c) The narrow part between Burdett Road and
Brantridge Street;
(d) Ocean Street;