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 Stepney]
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| Date | Matter of information or complaint. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| 12th Sept. | Exposing for sale 15¾ lbs. of unsound pickled meat at 8. Durham Row on 21st August. | Defendant cautioned, case dismissed on payment of £2 2s. 0d. costs. |
| 23rd Sept. | Failing to abate nuisance caused by defective rainwater pipes, yard paving, etc., at 15, Artillery Passage. | Ordered to do the work within within 21 days and pay £2 8s. 0d. costs. |
| 29th Nov. | Failing to abate nuisance caused by damp wall at 19, Philpot Street. | The work having been completed at the time of the hearing, summons withdrawn on payment of £2 8s. 0d. costs. |
| 29th Nov. | Failing to abate nuisance caused by defective roof at 17, Philpot Street. | Ordered to do the work within 14 days. Pay £2 8s. 0d. costs. . |
| 9th Dec. | Failing to abate nuisance consisting of defective front gutter at 13, Yalford Street. | Ordered to do the work within 21 days and to pay £2 8s. 0d. costs. |
| 9th Dec. | Failing to abate nuisance consisting of walls and ceilings dirty and dilapidated at 29, Vallance Road. | Ordered to do the work within 14 days and to pay £2 8s. 0d. costs. |
| 17th Jan. | Absence of lighting of staircase one hour after sunset until 11 p.m. at 51, Oxford Street. | *Dismissed because under a High Court Judgment stated by Defendant's Counsel there was a separate rating of each tenement which excluded it from being a House let in lodgings under the Bye-laws. |
| * The premises have accordingly been removed from the Register of Houses-let-in-lodgings and treated as a tenement building. | ||
| 26th April . | Failing to give notice of the construction of a new portion of the drain at 6, Black Lion Yard. | Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £1 1s. 0d. costs. |
| 26th April | Failing to deposit plans of a new portion of drain constructed at 6, Black Lion Yard. | Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £1 1s. 0d. costs. |
| 24th June | Failing to give notice or deposit plans of drainage work to be executed at 28, Middlesex Street. | Dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act on payment of £4 4s. Od. costs. |
| 26th Aug. | Failing to deposit plans and drawings of drainage work executed at 126, White-chapel Road. | Fined £1 0s. 0d. with £2 2s. 0d. costs. |
| 28th Mar | Failing to give notice of her intention of taking a foster child at 2, Flower and Dean Street on 12th November, 1934. | Bound over for 12 months in own recognizances in the sum of £2 0s. 0d. |