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Mile End 1887

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

Published
1888
Pages
50
Tables
21

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21 tables in this report

  • Page 25
    SCHEDULE II. Names of the Streets in which houses were situate in respect of which orders were made for the execution of Sanitary works.
    Date of Meetingatwhich order made.To provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave Yards.To provide dust-bins or pails.To trap drains and sinks.To clear se and purify houses.To abolish cesspools.To provide proper drainage and connect with sewer.To break-up drains.To discontinue use of underground rooms as Sleeping-rooms.
  • Page 26
    SCHEDULE II.— Continued.
    Date of Meeting at which order made.To provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave yards.To provide dust-bins or pails.To trap drains and sinks.To cleanse and purify houses.Disconnect water supply to closet from that used for other purposes.To provide proper drainage and connect with sewers.To break-up drains.To discontinue use of underground rooms as sleeping rooms
  • Page 27
    SCHUDULE II.— Continued.
    Date of Meeting at which order made.To provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave yards.To provide dust-bins or pails.To trap drains and sinks.To cleanse and purify houses.Disconnect water supply to closet from that used for other purposes.To provide proper drainage and connect with sewers.To break-up drains.To discontinue use of underground rooms as sleeping rooms.
  • Page 29
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Receipts.£s.dExpenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 29
    Summary.
  • Page 30
    Lighting Account. Lighting Account.
    Receipts.£s.d.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 30
    Summary.
  • Page 30
    Sewers Account. Sewers Account
    Receipts.£s.d.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 30
    Summary.
  • Page 31
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 32
    General Purposes Account. General Purposes Account.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 33
    Lighting Account. Lighting Account.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 33
    Sewers Account.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 34
    List of Contracts entered into during the Year ending 25th March, 1888.
    Date.Names of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.Amount paid or to be paid to the Contractors.
    1887£s.d.
  • Page 39
    ROAD REPAIRS. The following table will shew the quantity of material used on the various roads.
    Year ending March, 1886Year ending March, 1887Year ending March, 1888.
    Yards.£s.dYards.fs.d.Yards.£s.d.
  • Page 39
    ROAD WATERING.
    1886.1887.1888.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 40
    REMOVAL OF DUST. The quantity of refuse collected from houses by your carts and men during the year was 18,902 loads, being 1,511 loads more than were collected in 1886-7. and 3,916 more than in the year 1885-6.
    1886.1887.1888.
    as.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 40
    DISPOSAL OF STREET REFUSE.
    18861887.1888.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 46
    The following Table shews the number of births registered in each vear for the last ten vears.
    Year.No. of Births.Year.No. of Births.
  • Page 47
    The death-rate for the whole of London for the year was 19.9 per 1000 and in the twenty-seven large provincial towns 21.6 per 1000.
    Quarter endingMile End.London.27 Provincial Towns.
  • Page 47
    It will readily be understood that it is with the deaths from these diseases that we are particularly interested, and strive to do all we can to prevent their spread and so lessen the mortality arising therefrom. The following Table shows the deaths from these diseases in the four quarters of the year.
    Quarter ending June, 1887.Quarter ending Oct., 1887,Quarter ending Dec., 1887. 'Quarter ending Mar., 1888.Total.