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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9 OCTOBER, 1889.
(d) Nos. 4, 8, 12, 14 to 20, 26 to 32, 40 to 52, (even) 58
and 82, Wellesley Street; 131, Charles Street; 25 to
73, (odd), and 30 to 48, (even) Jubilee Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(e) No. 7, Coke Street—
To repair flushing apparatus to closet.
(f) No. 68, Wellesley Street—
To disconnect waste-pipe to sink from direct communication
with drain.
That your Inspectors reported that since the last meeting,
the following works had been performed, viz:
East. West. Total.
Water supply provided to closets 19 33 52
Receptacles for dust provided 12 13 25
Yards paved 7 11 18
Houses disinfected 9 12 21
Drains cleansed 4 4 8
„ trapped o 2 2
„ tested o 1 1
(4) That Mr. Cox your Inspector under the Adulteration of
Food, &c., Acts, submitted certificates of your Analyst, as
follows:
2 Milks, genuine.
1 Milk, adulterated with about 10 per cent. of added
water.
2 Mustards, genuine.
2 Coffees, genuine.
1 Pepper, suspicious, but cannot say it is adulterated.
That your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the person who sold the milk
adulterated with 10 per cent. of added water.
(5) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
Medical Officer of Health be authorised to have the necessary
printing done, for the due carrying out of the Infectious
(Notification) Diseases Act, 1889.
(6) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That advertisements
be issued inviting tenders for performance of
jobbing sewers' work for one year.
(7) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That one
of Knight's patent deodorising chambers be fixed at each of
the following ventilating shafts, viz :
Opposite No. 68, Wellesley Street. *
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the estimated cost being £2 5s. each.
(8) That your Clerk submitted a number of notices from persons
of their intention to apply to the London County Council for
Cow and Slaughter-house Licenses, and also a communication
from the County Council, stating that all applicants had been
supplied with forms of notices, to be sent to the Vestry.