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METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
The last of the Improvements effected by the Metropolitan
Board under the Act of 1872, in this neighbourhood—the Bethnal
Green Road was completed and opened early in the present year.
A portion of this is situate in the Parish of Shoreditch. The
works were much delayed by the bad weather. The carrying out of
this work necessitated the removal of a large public convenience
situated in Sclater Street. The Vestry asked the Board to replace
it by another on a convenient spot, and ultimately consented to the
erection of such a place in the High Street, near the end of Great
Eastern Street. A large double structure of Jennings' patent is
now being erected by the Metropolitan Board at a cost of about
£500.
REFUGES, CROSSINGS, &c.
The Secretary of State appears to have had his attention called
to the number of street accidents occurring in London, many of
which would be preventable by more care on the part of both drivers
and pedestrians, and he has applied for information as to the number
of refuges in the parish, and suggested that one should be placed at
the end of Bethnal Green Road. This suggestion had been
anticipated and the order given. The following information was
furnished, and the parts indicated on the parish plan.
Ordinary refuges 8
Urinal refuges in streets 3
Refuges in course of construction 2
The number does not seem large but it must be remembered
that it is only in wide openings that they can be placed, and in the
parish of Shoreditch these are comparatively few.
A lamentable accident occurred during the winter in the New
North Road, by which two children were killed by being run over
by a tramcar. Although it does not appear that the sharp corner