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Shoreditch 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch, Parish of St. Leonard]

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questing a better supply of water, and the companies had promised to
attend to the requests of the committee.
That on the 15th August, 1866, your committee appointed Mr.
Thomas Spurin an additional assistant inspector, at 30s. a week, it being
considered necessary in consequence of the accumulation of work required
to be carried out by the sanitary inspectors.
That on the 15th August, by the advice of the medical officer to the
Vestry, your committee gave instructions to the Surveyor to the Vestry
to provide a temporary Mortuary in the stone yard, in Hoxton street,
for the temporary reception of the bodies of persons who had died of
cholera, which orders were carried out; the expense of which will be
found at the end of this report.
That your committee have examined into the several applications that
have been made to them from time to time, for compensation for the
destruction of infected clothing, and having had the evidence of the
inspector, under whose superintendence this duty had been carried out,
they have awarded to the applicants the following amounts, viz:
Fredk. Riley, 6, Union-street, Haggerstone
1
0
0
Susan Mumford, 8, Wickham-street, Pool-st.
4
0
0
Mrs. Deighton, 13, John-street, Curtain-road
0
10
0
Wm. Beavor, 43, Boston-street
2
0
0
Sarah Smith, 7, Duncan-court
2
2
0
Godfrey Spicer, 13, Motley-street
1
0
0
Charles Newton, 18, Swan-yard
1
16
0
Mrs. Eustice, 10, Burnett's-place
1
5
0
Mrs. Tribe, 2, Little Cambridge-place
1
10
6
Mrs. Chapman, 14, Ivy-lane
1
12
0
Mrs. Margaret Norris, 15, Ivy-lane
0
16
6
Mrs. Eliz. Vicary, 3, Queen-street Hoxton
1
0
0
Mr. Wm. Watson, 8, Hammond-square
1
5
0
Mr. Jas. Light, 22, Reeves-place
4
12
0
Mr. Alfred Phillips, 2, Parker-street
1
15
0
Carried forward
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4
0