[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:
1885
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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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    12 and maintenance, but the Vestry felt bound to decline, as, in their opinion, the ground was too small to give a benefit to the ratepayers at all commensurate with the probable cost of future care and maintenance. The same Association also made liberal offers to contribute to the cost of planting trees in the principal roads in the Hamlet, if the Vestry would afterwards maintain them, but, as the Vestry has, for some years, tried the experiment of growing trees by the side of the Mile End-road with but indifferent success, the Vestry felt bound reluctantly to decline the offers. Re-num bering of Streets. Over head Wires. The north side of Bow Common-lane has been re-numbered during the year. The question of the right of the Vestries and District Boards of London to deal with overhead wires has been the subject of, judicial decision, and it was held that the Vestries and District Boards have not such a property in streets as to entitle them to maintain an action for an injunction against the erection of wires across a street, if the wire be at such a height as not to cause appreciable danger to the public or to the traffic. In the judgments, however, the Judges intimated that if a danger really existed, in all probability the Vestry would be right in taking action. The decision is quite in accordance with the advice which the Clerk to the Vestry gave to them. Sanitary In view of the possible appearance of cholera in the autumn of last year, the Vestry passed special resolutions empowering the Sanitary Committee to take measures to deal with it, in case the necessity arose, but the Vestry are pleased to say that it became unnecessary for them to do so. Jobbing Sewers. On the expiration of the jobbing sewers contract, tenders were invited, and that of Mr. W. Finch accepted. Artizans and Laborers' Dwellings Act, 1868. The Vestry were compelled to take proceedings under the Artizans' and Laborers' Dwellings Act, 1868, in respect of Nos. 1 to 17 (odd numbers) and 2 to 26 (even numbers), Frimley street. Under the existing law, an owner can, in certain cases, compel the Vestry to purchase the property in respect of which notice has been given, and this has proved a great drawback in the working of the Act. I he owner of the houses in Frimley-street, however, under took to execute all necessary works: Over crowding. 1 he Vestry's officers have had considerable difficulty in dealing with the evil of overcrowding, as, in consequence of the want of employment, there has been increased tendency among the working classes to gather together as much as possible to save rents. Regu lations under the Sanitary Acts. The Vestry having determined to put in force the powers given by the Sanitary Acts, enabling them to make regulations for houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, most carefully considered regulations submitted to them, and having approved of them, directed them to be sent for confumation by the Local Government Board, as provided by the Act. That Board made numerous alterations, but, after
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