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Mile End 1889

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

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94
4 DECEMBER, 1889.
"satisfactory, but it is from the deaths resulting from
"zymotic diseases with which as a sanitary body you
"are most interested.
"For the quarter ending November 2, the death-rate
"from these causes occurring in London and the Eastern
"Districts are as follows:
"London 2.0 per 1,000, per annum.
" Mile End 2.5 „ „
"Poplar 1.4 „ „
" Limehouse 3.9 „ „
" Whitecliapel 3.3 „ „
" St. George's 2.4 „ „
" Shoreditch 2.3 „ „
" Bethnal Green 2.9 „ „
And your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
same be received.
That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read reports,
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
(3) That having regard to such Reports your Committee resolved
to recommend—That notices be served upon the owners
of the following houses and premises, requiring them to
perform the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 1, 2, 23, Eagle Place; 224, 226, Devonshire
Street; 1, 2, Union Place, Union Street; and 10,
John's Place—
To properly cleanse and purify such houses.
(b) Nos. 23, Eagle Place ; 224, 226, Devonshire Street;
4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 21, 22, Oley Place; 3, Pearl Place,
Redman's Road; 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 30, Walden Street;
14, 16, 18, 22, 5, Garden Street; 1, 2, 5 and 6, Smith's
Place, Garden Street—
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(c) Nos. 6, 18, 19, 20, Eagle Place; 224, 226, Devonshire
Street; 2, 20, 21, 22, Oley Place; 3, 4, 7½, 8, Princes
Street; 1, 3, 5 to 13, Pearl Place, Redman's Road; 5, 7,
11, 13, 17, 40, Walden Street; 5, 11, 2, 10 to 26,
Garden Street; 5, 6, Smith's Place, Garden Street; 15,
Romford Street; 3, John's Place; and 6, Adelina
Grove—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(d) Nos. 20, Eagle Place; 1, 4, 19, Oley Place; 14, 15,
Princes Street; 2, 3, 4, Pearl Place, Redman's Road;
1, 2, Union Place, Union Street; 13, Walden Street;
5, 9, 13, 2, 4, 6, 10, Garden Street; and 2, Smith's
Place, Garden Street—
To provide proper dust-bins or galvanized iron perforated
pails for the use of the tenants thereat.
(e) Nos. 39, St. Paul's Road; 1 to 4, 6 to 10, Oley Place;
and 47, Rectory Square—