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Poplar 1893

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Bow District, comprising the Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow

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I would here draw attention to the Board's regulations.
I should say the 4000 houses above-mentioned would require
registration as Houses let in Lodgings.
The question of how many Inspectors will be required to do this
part of the work is the most serious one in this report, and I should
prefer a consultation with the Committee before expressing an
opinion as to the number of Inspectors required.
Mortuary and Coroner's Court.
The necessity for fresh arrangements having been admitted by the
Committee, and the whole question being put under their consideration,
comment of mine on this head is superfluous.
Workshops, Outworkers Bakehouses, Cowhouses, Slaughterhouses,
Mews, Stables, Fishmongers, Greengrocers,
Food Stores, Stalls and Barrows of all Descriptions,
Rag and Bone Shops.
All these, and places of a like kind, might well occupy the whole
time of one Inspector.
Notification of Infectious Diseases and Nuisance Complants.
Yet the attempt might be made to include in his duties the investigation
into cases of infectious disease as notified, and the exercise
of such surveillance as would tend to bring about the carrying-out of
our instructions.
Factory Nuisances and Smoke Nuisances.
I would leave these to Mr. Raymond.
Disinfecting Apparatus.
I am of opinion that it is absolutely necessary that we should
have an entirely new apparatus, on a new site, the present apparatus
being antiquated by its process, and inefficient and structurally
dilapidated, and the site most incommodious.