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Stepney 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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On November 6th. Messrs. Franks and Symons, of 354, Mile End Road, were
summoned for failing to comply with the Council's notice to pave the yard of 29,
St. George's Terrace, Commercial Road. The work having been satisfactorily
completed at the hearing of the summons, they were ordered by the Magistrate
to pay 23s. costs.
On December 2nd. Mr. Reuben Mettern, of 11, Wellington Buildings, was
summoned for causing his premises to be overcrowded.
He was fined 1s., with 10s. 6d. costs.
On December 10th. Mr. Phillip Greenberg, of 145, St. George's Street, the
occupier of land at the corner of Chigwell Hill, St. George's, was summoned for
not complying with the Magistrate's order to remove an accumulation of filthy
rags, &c.
He was fined 20s., with £3 5s. costs.
On December 17th. Mr. J. B. Kyffin, of 89, Amhurst Road, Hackney, was
summoned for not supplying a dust receptacle to 28, Lee Street.
He was fined 40s., with 23s. costs.
On December 17th. Mr. J. B. Kyffin, of 89, Amhurst Road, Hackney, was
summoned for failing to abate a nuisance arising from the damp condition of
the ground floor back room of 15, Lee Street.
He was fined 3s., with 23s. costs.
On December 17th. Mr. J. B. Kyffin, of 89, Amhurst Road, Hackney, was
summoned for not complying with the Council's notice to remedy a nuisance due
to the defective flushing apparatus of 22, Lee Street. The waste pipe of the sink
on the first floor was untrapped. On the suggestion of the Magistrate the case
was withdrawn upon Mr. Kyffin agreeing to pay 23s. costs as the necessary work
had then been completed.
On December 30th. Mr. Rueben Freedman, of 24, Buckle Street, Whitechapel,
was summoned for not abating a nuisance arising from accumulation of
offensive rags at the corner of Gt. Pearl Street and Wheeler Street, Spitalfields.
He was fined £5, with 23s. costs. The Magistrate also made an order to
abate the nuisance as well as to prevent its recurrence.
On January 4th, 1910. Mr. Charles Taylor, 108, Central Park Road, Upton
Park, appeared to an adjourned summons for failing to abate a nuisance arising
from the defective drainage of No. 61, Harford Street. The work having been
completed at the hearing of the summons, the case was withdrawn upon
payment of 23s. costs.