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Stepney 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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On February 5th, Mr. Mark Specterman was summoned for failing to
remedy the damp condition of the walls of 29, Old Montague Street. The
summons was adjourned from the 1st inst., he disputed the ownership. At
the adjourned hearing on the 5th the summons was withdrawn on the Mortgagees
giving a written undertaking to carry out the necessary work.
On February 8th, Mr. Solomon Beron, of 6, Dudley Terrace, Beaumont
Street, was summoned for failing to remedy the defective condition of the roof
of Montague House, Old Montague Street. He was fined £5 and 23s. costs.
On February 9th, Mr. Woolf Paros, 135, St. George's Street, was summoned
for permitting the workshop on second floor of the above premises to
be overcrowded. He was fined £2 and 23s. costs.
On February 9th, Mr. Woolf Paros, 135, St. George's Street was summoned
for failing to cleanse and limewash the workshop on the ground floor.
He was fined £2 and 23s. costs.
On February 23rd, Mr. Henry Levin, of 12 and 13, Plough Street, Whitechapel,
was summoned for failing to abate a nuisance arising from offensive
emanations from the smelting of lead and other metals. He was fined £20
and £10 10s. costs.
On February 23rd, Mr. J. Blum, of the Hackney Distillery, Homerton
Row, Homerton, was summoned for non-compliance with a notice of the
Council to remedy the defective drain of 39, White Horse Lane. The
Magistrate made an order to abate the nuisance with 27s. costs.
On February 23rd, Mr. Abraham Lewis, of 33, Fieldgate Street, was
summoned for failing to abate a nuisance arising from the improper keeping of
fowls. He was fined £4 and £3 3s. costs.
On March 8th, Mr. Simon Cohen, of 4, Weston Place, Hackney, was
summoned for failing to lay 6 inches of concrete over a drain at 85, Cannon
Street Road, as required by the London County Council Bye-laws. He was
fined 30s. and 23s. costs.
On March 13th, Mr. James Mace, of 76, Elderfield Street, Clapham, was
summoned for non-compliance with the Magistrate's order made on February
1st, to abate a nuisance arising from the defective condition of the soil pipe at
19, White's Row. He was fined 35s. and '23s. costs.