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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Date. | Matter of information or complaint. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| 11th May | Failing to abate a nuisance caused by an accumulation of rubbish at 134, White-chapel Road. | Case dismissed. £1 Is. 0d costs to defendant. |
| 13th May | Failing to abate a nuisance caused by an accumulation of rubbish at 10, Greenfield Street. | Rubbish removed. £2 8s. 0d. costs. |
| 13th May. | Failing to abate a nuisance caused by accumulation of rubbish at 33, Plumbers Row. | £2 8s. Od. costs. Ordered to do work in 7 days. |
| 20th May | Failing to comply with a Nuisance Abatement Order made against him on 10th March. (Hearing adjourned from 13th May, 1938). | £5 fine, £1 Is. Od. costs. |
| 23rd May | Having deposited in preparation for sale 4 tubercular pigs' heads on 26th January. | Case dismissed under Probation of Offenders' Act on payment of £5 5s. Od. costs. |
| 4th July | Not observing due cleanliness at the grocery and milkshop on 13th May. | Fined £1 and £1 Is. Od. costs. |
| 15th July | Accumulation of rubbish | Case dismissed. Magistrate ruled there was no nuisance arising out of the accumulation. Defendant awarded £5 5s. Od. |
| 30th Sept. | Storing ice cream at 450, Mile End Road, such premises not being registered. | Case dismissed under Probation of Offenders'Act with £1 Is. Od. costs. |
| 30th Sept. | Failing to keep ice cream wafer machine and drinking glasses in a cleanly state. | Case dismissed under Probation of Offenders' Act. |
| 7th Oct. | Exposing for sale 2 tubercular fowls at 28, Burslem Street on 8th August. | Fined £25. Pay £10 costs. |
| 26th Oct. | Failing to maintain the prepared food premises (fried fish) at 82, Cable Street in a cleanly condition on 1st July. | Fined £1. Pay £2 2s. Od. costs. |
| 10th Nov. | Failing to abate a nuisance caused by defective eaves gutter and rainwater pipe ; also defective and untrapped sink waste pipe at 129, Hanbury Street. | Ordered to do work within 7 days. Pay £2 8s. Od. costs. |
| 24th Nov. | Exposing for sale on 1st September, a quantity of sultanas which were unsound, unwholesome and unfit for the food of man. | Case adjourned sine die owing to illness of defendant. (The case was adjourned from 10th Nov., 1938.) |
| 15th Dec. | Failing to abate a nuisance arising from defective roof at 123, Sidney Street. | Fined £5. Pay £2 8s. Od. costs. |
| 23rd Dec. | Failing to abate a nuisance arising from defective roof, ceiling, dustbin, &c., at 44, Durham Row. The work was done before hearing of the case. | Fined £3. Pay £2 8s. Od. costs. |
| 26th Dec. | Exposing for sale on 8th November, 18 packages of figs which were unsound and unfit for human food. | Fined £2. Pay £1 Is. Od. costs. |