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The Poplar Board addressed a further communication to this
Board with an amended plan, shewing the proposed new road from
Bridge Road through Gill Street, all the property required for
carrying out the improvement being in the Poplar District, and the
co-operation of this Board was invited to urge the Metropolian
Board to carry out the scheme as a Metropolitan improvement
With regard to the proposed widening of Birchfield Street,
partly in Poplar and partly in Limehouse, which was referred to the
Surveyor with instructions to negpociate with the London and
County Banking Company and the other owners of property on the
east side of the street, in conjunction with the Poplar District Board,
conditional arrangements were made with the persons interested in
the property required for the proposed improvement. Die Joint
Committee of the two Districts, after hearing the Report of the
Surveyors on the subject, passed a resolution to the effect that
in the event of the London and County Banking Company waiving
all claim for compensation for the land belonging to them required
for the improvement, the subject be again considered by the Joint
Committee.
PRIVATE PAVING.
The owners of Angel Court, Shadwell, have paved the same in
compliance with the notice served upon them by the Board.
The Bricklayers and Tylers Company have pulled down the six
houses in lied Lion Place, Wapping, and bricked up the entrance
thereto.
VENTILATION OF SEWERS.
Owing to the many complaints of the noxious effluvia from the
main sewers in the District, a communication was addressed to the
Metropolitan Board of Works, calling their attention to the matter
and asking them to devise some means for lessening the evil
complained of.
Subsequently the Metropolitan Board fixed one of Parker's
1 ateut Sewer Ventilators at each of the following places, viz., one