Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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22 JANUARY, 1890.
That having regard to such reports your Committee resolved
to recommend— That notices be served upon the owners of
the following houses and premises, requiring them to perform
the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 25 to 30, Alma Road—
To pave the yards thereat.
(b) Nos. 25 to 30 Alma Road; 51 and 52, Wilson Street;
and 2 Bridge Street—
To provide proper receptacles for dust.
(c) Nos. 47, 48, 49 and 50, Wilson Street; 1, Coutts
Road; 17, 20 to 33, King John Street—
To separate the water supply used for domestic purposes
from the cisterns which supply the closets.
(d) Nos. 47, Wilson Street; 6, 7, 13, 14, 28, King John
Street; 8 and 12, Bridge Street—
To provide water supply to closets.
(e) No. 41, Raven Row—
To provide water supply to closet, pave yard, trap drains,
provide receptacle for dust, and remove cause of dampness
in basement floor.
(f) Nos. 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12, Bridge Street—
To disconnect waste pipes of sinks from direct communication
with drains.
(g) No. 2, Bridge Street—
To pave yard and trap yard gully.
(5) That your Clerk submitted a letter from the School Board
for London, asking that information might be sent to them
of all cases of fever, small-pox, and diphtheria, notified to the
Vestry under the Act, and your Committee resolved to recommend—
That the School Board for London be permitted to
inspect at the Vestry Hall, at times to be agreed on, the books
giving the information for which they ask.
(6) That your Inspectors reported that since the last report,
the following works had been performed, viz :
East. West. Total.
Water supplied to closets 27 47 74
Yards paved 11 10 21
Receptacles for dust provided 19 3 22
Drains cleansed 5 2 7
Houses cleansed 9 312
Houses disinfected 6 3 9
Water supply for drinking purposes separated
from that used for flushing the closets 5 10 15
Drains trapped 0 2 2
New closet built 0
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(7) That your Clerk submitted the Quarterly Report of your
Analyst as follows:
22 JANUARY, 1890.
East, J | Timber | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
Gt. Eastern Railway Co. | Carriage of refuse | 26 | 10 | 3 | |||
Jarvis, T. | Tyring | 18 | 11 | ||||
Tees Scoriae Brick Co | Blocks | 32 | 19 | ||||
Wright, E. & F. | Lamp columns | 11 | 5 | 0 | |||
Frames and covers for deodorizers | 13 | 4 | 0 | ||||
24 | 9 | 0 | |||||
Wills & Packham | Flints and hoggin | 149 | 4 | ||||
Cole, W. & T | Smith's work (on account) | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
Byford, J. | Lime and cement | 3 | 18 | ||||
Doulton & Co. | Lime | 8 | 7 | 0 | |||
East London Water | Water to stables and wharf | 3 | 16 | 4 | |||
Works Co. | ,, recreation gronnds | 4 | 11 | 0 | |||
,, Vestry Hall | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
9 | 8 | 10 | |||||
Powell, N. J. & Co. | Stationery | 36 | 8 | 6 | |||
Jutsum, M. (Clerk) | For payment to Medical Practitioners for fees for 195 notifications of infectious diseases | 23 | 2 | 0 | |||
School Board for London | Rates on Government Property not included in Valuation List | 6 | 12 | 4 | |||
London County Council | Ditto Consolidated Rate | 5 | 15 | 8 | |||
Knight, J. M. (Surveyor) | Payment of expenses for refreshments of Dusting and Cleansing Committee, 1 survey | 2 | 0 | 0 |