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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Mile End 1888

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

Published
1889
Pages
65
Tables
20

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20 tables in this report

  • Page 9
    (1) Stated that terms has been agreed on as under:
    PROPERTYClaimPurchase money agreed
  • Page 34
    SCHEDULE II.
    Date of Vestry Meeting.To provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave Yards.To provide dust-bins or pails or to repair existing dust-bins.To trap drains and sinks.To cleanse and purify.To provide proper drainage and abate nuisances.To discontinue use of underground rooms as sleeping-rooms.To provide proper W.C. accommodation and to repair same.To provide separate water supply to closets from that used for domestic purposed.
  • Page 35
    SCHEDULE II. — Continued.
    Date of Vestry Meeting.To provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave yards.To provide dust-bins or pails or to repair existing dust-bins.To tmp drains and sinks.To cleanse and purify.To provide proper drainage and abate nuisances.To discontinue use of underground rooms as sleeping rooms.To provide proper W.C. accommodation and to repair same.To provide separate water supply to closets from that used for domestic purposes.
  • Page 36
    SCHEDULE II. — Continued.
    Date of Vestry MeetingTo provide proper water-supply to closets.To pave yards.To provide dust- bins or pails or to repair existing dust-bins.To trap drains and sinks.To cleanse and purify.To provide proper drainage and abate nuisances.To discontinue use of underground rooms as sleeping rooms.To provide proper W.C. accommodation and to repair same.To provide separate water supply closets from than used for domestic purpose.
  • Page 40 41
    ABSTRACT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSES ACCOUNT.
    Receipts.£8.d.Expenditure.£s.d.Capital
  • Page 42 43
    ABSTRACT OF THE LIGHTING ACCOUNT.
    Receipts.£s.a.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 42 43
    ABSTRACT OF THE SEWERS ACCOUNT.
    Receipts.£s.d.Expenditure.£s.d.
  • Page 44 45
    GENERAL PURPOSES ACCOUNT- STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 46 47
    GENERAL PURPOSES ACCOUNT- STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 48 49
    LIGHTING ACCOUNT- STATEMENT OF LIABILITIES AND ASSETS.
    Liabilities.£s.d.Assets.£s.d.
  • Page 50
    LIST OF CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO FOR THE YEAR ENDED 25th MARCH, 1889.
    Date.Names of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.Amounts paid or to be paid to he Contractors
    1888£s.d.
  • Page 55
    The cost of keeping the Vestry's horses was as follows:—
  • Page 56
    ROAD WATERING.
    1887.1888.1889.
    £S.d.£S.d£s.d.
  • Page 56
    ROAD REPAIRS.
    Year ending March, 1887.Year ending March, 1888.Year ending March, 1889.
    Yards.£s.d.Yards.£s.d.Yards.£S.d.
  • Page 56
    SCAVENGING.
    1887.1888.1889.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 57
    The quantity of refuse collected from houses by your carts and men during the year was 15 ,553 loads, being 3349 loads less than were collected in 1887-8.
    1887.1888.1889.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 57
    DISPOSAL OF STREET REFUSE.
    1887.1888.1889.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 63
    death-rate in the four quarters.
    Quarter ending 1888.Mile End.London.28 Provincial Towns.
  • Page 64
    system of notification from medical men and the various Institutions continues to work very well, with the result that during the past twelve months, 133 cases have been notified to us, 59 of which were sent by medical men.
    Quarter ending June, 1888.Quarter ending Sept., 1888.Quarter ending Dec., 1888.Quarter ending March, 1889.Total.
  • Page 65
    In the absence of notification of all cases of the chief epidemic diseases, which cannot be obtained without compulsory powers, the following table of patients admitted in the Asylums Boad Hospitals during the past year, gives the only further available indication of the number of cases of infectious disease, in this district, and in the metropolis generally.
    PARISHES AND UNIONS.SUMMARY.Mortality per cent. on all caese admitted.Enumerated Population in 1881.Admissions of all cases per 1,000 of enumerated Population.
    Scarlet.Diphtheria.Enteric.Typhus.Other Diseases.Grand Total Admissions.Grand Total Deaths.