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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
Mile End 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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The cost of cleansing the principal sewers and gullies of the Hamlet
was £600 19s. 1d.
Seven-hundred and thirty-four cubic yards of soil have been
removed from the gullies, and three-hundred and forty-nine yards from
the sewers in the Hamlet.
STEAM ROLLER.
During the year the engine has worked for the Vestry 118 days,
which would have cost, if hired, the sum of £295.
The Vestry have received for hire of roller from adjoining Parishes
and London and North Western Railway Company, the sum
of £260 11s. 8d.
The total cost of working, repairs, wages and fuel has been
£343 0s. 9d.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN M. KNIGHT,
Surveyor.
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| Gravel yds. | Granite yds. | Flints yds. | Rag stne. yds. | Gravel yds. | Granite yds. | Hints yds. | Rag stne. yds. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannibal-road | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Pole-street | 3 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Holford-street | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rutland-street | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Jubilee-street | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Redmans-road | 7 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Jamaica-street | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | Robert-street | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| James-street | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Russell-street | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| King John-street | 0 | 31 | 2 | 0 | Rowsell-street | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Lincoln-street | 5 | 18 | 0 | 2 | St. Peters-road | 12 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Longfellow-road | 7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | Stepney-green | 7 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
| Lucas-street | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Sidney-street | 12 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| Louisa-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | St. Pauls-road | 33 | 159 | 0 | 0 |
| Lawton-road | 4 | 0 | 3 | 25 | South-grove | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Lyal-road | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | St-Peters-road | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Latimer-street | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | St. Dunstans-road | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Leslie-street | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | Skidmore-street | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Mile end-road (the waste | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Silver-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Settles street | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Mulberry-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Shandy-street | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Morgan-street | 25 | 83 | 0 | 0 | Salmen-street | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Maria-terrace | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tredegar-square | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Maplin-street | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Thomas-street | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Myrdle-street | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Turner-street | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Monsey-street | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Turners-road | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Moody-street | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Thomas-road | 0 | 21 | 2 | 2 |
| Medway-road | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Tillotson-street | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nicholas-street | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Wentworth-rd | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Norfolk-street | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | White Horse-Iane | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New York-street | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | William-street | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nottingham-pl | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Washington-street | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Newbold-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Wellesley-street | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford-street | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | Wades-place | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Philpot-street | 46 | 225 | 0 | 0 | Worsley-street | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Paterson-street | 7 | 30 | 0 | 0 | Walden-street | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Portland-street | 11 | 0 | 36 | 0 | York-street | 5 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| Park-road | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Zion-square | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Perth-street | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |