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 Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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10 JULY, 1889. 105a
(e) Nos. 32, Plumber's Row; and 19, Yalford Street—
To remove cause of dampness in ground floor rooms.
(f) No. 71, Yalford Street—
To repair the roof.
(g) No. 29, Yalford Street—
To repair the kitchen roof.
(h) No. 31, Yalford Street—
To provide proper guttering to prevent dampness of walls.
(i) No. 25, Frimley Street—
To pave the yard, to provide dust bin or galvanized iron
perforated pails for the use of the tenants, to cleanse
closet pan, and to provide new gully trap.
And upon the owners and occupiers of
(j) Nos. 20 and 22, Plumber's Row ; and 86, 87, 88 and
89, Greenfield Street—
To discontinue using the underground rooms or cellars as
sleeping apartments.
(3) That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read Reports
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
That having regard to such Reports your Committee
resolved to recommend—That notices be served upon the
owners of the following houses and premises in
Grove Road,
Oxford Street,
Cecil Street,
and Shandy Street,
requiring them to perform the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 17, 4, and 6 to 12, Grove Road ; 143 to 225,
Oxford Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(b) Nos. 29 to 39, Grove Road—
To separate the water supply for domestic purposes from
the cisterns which supply the closets.
(c) No. 1, Cecil Street—
To repair defective waste-pipe to sink.
(d) No. 68, Shandy Street—
To cleanse and purify house.
(4) That your Inspectors reported that since the last meeting
the following works had been performed, viz.:
East. West. Total.
Water supply provided to closets 22 57 79
Yards paved 12 11 23
Receptacles for dust provided 9 7 16
Water supply for domestic purposes
separated from closets 7 0 7
Houses cleansed 2 2 4
Drains tested 2 5 7
Drains trapped 0 3 3