[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green].

  • St. Matthew (Bethnal Green, London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
1877
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    20 should widen Prospect-place, the Company should contribute towards the cost of such widening either one fourth of the cost or a sum of £2,000. A draft, embodying the terms proposed by the Company, was sent by their solicitors and submitted to the Vestry on the 22nd March, when the matter was referred to the Parliamentary Committee for consideration. PAVING. The carriageway of Bethnal Green-road, between White-street and Brick-lane, has been relaid. The late Surveyor had submitted a list of streets, the footways of which, he considered, needed to be repaved, and he estimated the cost of the work, and the cost of paving the carriageway of Roman road from Twig Folly Bridge to Grove-road, and paving the unpaved portion of Cambridge-road, would exceed £30,000. The Vestry considered the propriety of borrowing money to meet the outlay, or such part of it as would be required for new work, and decided not to borrow, but instead to provide £1,000 per quarter out of the General Rate, to be set aside for the purpose of new paving, and repairing old footway paving. URINALS. The need of a urinal at the end of Austin-street by the Shoreditch churchyard has been long felt, and it was considered that the best place for it was at the corner of the churchyard. A deputation from the Sanitary Committee attended the Sanitary Committee of Shore ditch with a view of effecting an arrangment for the erection of a urinal on the confines of the churchyard. The Sanitary Committee of Shoreditch expressed a desire to co-operate with the Vestry, and agreed to submit the proposal to the Vicar and Burial Board, whose consent would be required. At the meeting on the 1st of March a letter from the Vestry Clerk of Shoreditch was submitted, stating the Vicar was willing to consent to the erection of a urinal, provided a faculty were obtained; also stating that the Architect's estimate was £ 120, or thereabouts, but offering to bear such portion of the expense as would be occasioned by providing (as shown in the plans), some accommodation for visitors to the churchyard; and pointing out there would have to be an agreement as to maintenance of water supply, lighting, &c., and it was referred to the Sanitary Committee to make