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To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Re Metropolis Local Management Acts.
Gentlemen.
In accordance with a resolution of your Board passed on
February 8th, 1882, it devolves upon me to submit to you a
summary report of the efforts which have been so successfully
made during recent years to improve the sanitary condition and
promote the public health of the Hamlet. To do this within a
reasonable compass will require great compression of the materials
from which the Summary is drawn, but this must not be taken to
imply that a very large amount of work has not been done, for the
details of which, reference may be made to the very numerous
reports which I have submitted to the Vestry, and to other notes
and memoranda in my own possession, which are, from the nature
of the duties of the Medical Officer, of a very varied kind, bearing
upon whatever appertains to his functions.
Summary
Report
The Act of 1855 found the Hamlet inhabited by a population
of 61,500, distributed over an area of 681 acres, dwelling in about
10,000 habitations; the densely populated centres being bordered
by open spaces, since built upon.
1856
Population
in
1855
The earliest official record in my department is a report dated
February 12th, 1856, in which the Medical Officer of Health
(Mr. Freeman) complains of accumulations of manure and refuse in
1st Report
Feb. 12th,
1856.
various open spaces, and of detective drainage, &c., nuisances
which were dealt with by the Vestry, and abated.
Nuisances
dealt with
A large number of places were during the same year visited
among them —
Places
visited
Raven's Premises, Church Row.
Young's ,, Mile End Road.
Houses in One Mile Row.
,, Fairfield Street.
,, Stepney Green.
,, Mulberry Street.
,, White Horse Court.
,, Edgar Place.
,, Rural Place.
,, Victoria Place.
,, Diamond Row,
In all of these the drainage
was improved, or the nuisances
removed, and repairs or alterations
recommended, or ordered
to be done.