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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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8 JANUARY, 1890.
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(q) No. 43, Brantridge Street—
To abate the overcrowding in the house.
(r) Nos. 7, 13, 15, Floreston Street—
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(s) Nos. 7, 13 to 25, Floreston Street; 1 to 13, Daniel's
Row ; 1 to 21, 31, Cressy Place; 30, New Road—
To provide proper water supply to the closets thereat.
(t) No. 14, Floreston Street—
To properly repair the flushing apparatus to closet thereat.
(u) No. 1, Daniel's Row—
To discontinue keeping horse in back wash-house thereat.
(v) No. 25, Baker Street—
To disconnect waste pipe of sink from direct communication
with drain ; and remove rotten flooring in wash-house.
(w) No. 1, Cressy Place—
To remove cause of dampness of outside walls thereof.
(4) That your Committee considered the reference of your
Board with regard to No. 141, Oxford Street, which house
was reported on under the Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings'
Act, 1868, and resolved to recommend— That proceedings
under the said Act be abandoned and that notice be served
upon the owner to cleanse and purify such house and
premises.
(5) That Mr. Leshaw, your Inspector under the Adulteration of
Food, &c., Act, submitted 16 certificates of your Analyst
certifying as follows:
3 samples of Bread, genuine.
3 „ Flour „
3 „ Coffee ,,
2 „ „ Cocoa „
2 „ „ Butter „
3 „ „ Mustard „
That Mr. Cox, your Inspector under the Adulteration of
Food, &c., Act, submitted nine certificates of your Analyst
certifying as follows :
3 samples of Coffee, genuine
3 „ Pepper
1 sample „ Cocoa „
1 „ „ Mustard „
1 „ „ Mustard, admixed with 60 per
cent, of Wheat Flour and colored
with Tarmeric.
That your Committee resolved to recommend— That proceedings
be taken against the person who sold to the
Inspector a sample of Mustard adulterated 60 per cent.