[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town].

  • Hamlet of Mile End Old Town (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1873
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    13 the School Board; but as the latter is materially affected by the method in which the former are pur posed to be worked out, the Vestry have carefully watched, and will continue to watch, all the proceedings of the School Board. In 1871 an act was passed, intituled The Metropolis Water Act, 1871, with the view of making the com panies provide a constant water supply, but they were to be compelled to do so only when certain regulations to be made, as provided for by the Act, had come into operation, and were complied with. The Companies were to propose the regulations, which were to receive the sanction of the Board of Trade, who were empowered to hear the Metropolitan Board of Works on the subject. The Companies accordingly prepared regulations to which the Metropolitan Board objected on many points before the Board of Trade ; but the latter, in some of the most important ones, as to the description of fittings, &c., adopted the views of the Companies. The result of this is that, in consequence of the enormous expense to which owners of property would be put to provide the fittings to enable the Metropolitan Board to compel the Companies to give a constant supply, that Board have refrained from so doing, and the Act has, to a great extent, become a nullity, and the public deprived of a great benefit. It should be mentioned, that the Metropolitan Board has consulted the various Vestries and District Boards on the course which, under the circumstances, they should adopt; and this Vestry and a Special Committee, having gone most carefully into the matter, entirely adopted the views of the Metropolitan Board, as before mentioned, a course also almost unanimously adopted throughout the metropolis. During the year occurred that unparalleled event, generally known as the Gas Strike. The facts connected with it are sufficiently in the memory of every one to render any recapitulation of
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