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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7 AUGUST, 1889.
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of Nos. 14, 87, 88 & 89, Greenfield Street, with a view of
obtaining the magistrate's order for a discontinuance of using
such underground rooms as dwellings or sleeping apartments.
That your Medical Officer reported as follows :
"Under the new order of the Local Government Board
"I find that the next Annual Report, will have to com"mence
from January 1st last, that being so it will be
"requisite for me to have from the Local Registrars, the
"copies of the Births and Deaths from January to March
"last."
That your Committee resolved to recommend—That copies
of the entries of Births and Deaths, be obtained from the
Registrars for the quarter, from 1st January to 25th March
last.
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
Swan Court James Street
Whitehead Street North Street
Union Buildings Eagle Place
Union Place Clark Street
Coburg Place and
West Street Zion House
requiring them to perform the following works, viz.:
(1) Nos. 2 to 5, Swan Court; 3, Union Place; 3, Coburg
Place ; 43, 63 & 65, Clark Street—
To properly pave the }rards thereat.
(2) Nos. 3 to 6, Swan Court; 1, Whitehead Street; 1, Union
Buildings; 1, Coburg Place; 9, 29, 83 to 89, West Street;
14, James Street; 8, North Street; 18, 19 & 21, Eagle
Place—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(3) Nos. 31 & 33, Whitehead Street; 2, Union Place—
To cleanse the staircases thereat.
(4) Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 5, Union Buildings—
To remove the cause of dampness to such houses.
(5) No. 9, Eagle Place; 13, 25 & 27, Clark Street—
To properly trap the sinks thereat.
(6) No. 21, Eagle Place; 3 to 65, Clark Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(7) Nos. 3 to 7, 21 to 25, 59 & 61, Clark Street—
To provide dust-bins, or galvanised iron perforated
pails for the use of the tenants thereat.