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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24 JULY, 1889.
123a
(b) Nos. 2 to 5, Toilet Street; 144, Jubilee Street; 3,
White Horse Lane—
To disconnect the waste pipes of sinks from direct communication
with the drains thereat.
(c) Nos. 41 and 42, Toilet Street; 3, White Horse Lane—
To disconnect the water supply for domestic purposes from
that used for flushing the closets thereat.
(d) Nos. 144, Jubilee Street; 67, Clark Street—
To cleanse and repair the drains thereat.
(e) No. 63, Skidmore Street—
To cleanse and purify ceilings and walls of passages and
rooms.
(f) Nos. 19, Garden Street; 86, Greenfield Street—
To properly trap the drains thereat.
(g) No. 54, Gold Street—
To cleanse and purify the whole of house, and repair the
floors and ceilings.
(h) Nos. 86, 87 and 88, Greenfield Street—
To cleanse the yards thereat.
(i) No. 87, Greenfield Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closet thereat.
(j) Nos. 87 and 88, Greenfield Street—
To unstop the drains thereat.
(k) And upon the owner and occupier of No. 89,
Greenfield Street—
To discontinue using the underground room or cellar as a
sleeping apartment.
(4) That your Sanitary Inspectors reported that since the last
meeting the following works had been performed, viz.:
East. West. Total.
Water supply provided to closets 23 35 58
Yards paved 9 7 16
Receptacles for dust provided - 8 311
Water supply for domestic purposes
separated from cisterns which supply
the closet 6 0 6
Houses cleansed 3 0 3
„ disinfected 9 0 9
Drains cleansed 4 6 10
(5) That your Committee have had under their consideration
the present position and salary of Mr. Charles Cox, your
Second Inspector of Nuisances, and also the advisability of
his being appointed Inspector under the Adulteration of Food
and Drugs' Acts, and came to the conclusion that it would be
an advantage for Mr. Cox to be so appointed, and therefore
resolved to recommend—That Mr. Charles Cox be appointed