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Stepney 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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DateMatter 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nuisance caused by damp wall at 19, Philpot Street.The work having been completed at the time of the hearing, summons withdrawn on payment of £2 8s. 0d.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. Houses-let-in-Lodgings Byelaws.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. London County Council Drainage Byelaws.
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 AprilFailing 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 JuneFailing 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.
Children and Young Persons Acts, 1908- 1932.
28th MarFailing 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.