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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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50A
22 MAY, 1889.
That your Surveyor reported thereon.
That your Medical Officer reported as follows :
"With regard to the horse kept at No. 8, Ragle Place,
"I beg to report that it is still kept in the back yard ten
"feet square, with no proper drainage.
"The paving is broken away so that the surface drain
"is useless, and I consider it a nuisance injurious to the
"health of the inhabitants of both Nos. 7 and 8.
"The Inspector served the ordinary notice, which has
"not been carried out."
That your Committee resolved to recommend—That notice
be served upon the owner of the house referred to, requiring
him to provide proper drainage, or discontinue using such
place as a stable, and repair the paving in the yard, and that
the Chairman of the Vestry meeting sign the necessary order,
for the Inspector to take proceedings (if necessary) before the
magistrate, for the abatement of the nuisance.
(4) That having regard to the Report of the District Surveyor
and your Medical Officer of Health, your Committee resolved
to recommend—That notices be served upon the owners and
occupiers of the following houses and premises, requiring them
to discontinue using the underground rooms thereof as sleeping
apartments, viz.:
Nos. 25, 27, 29, 31, 41, 45, and 22, Plumber's Row; 4,
and 5, Little Holloway Street; and 8, 9, 12, 85, and
88, Greenfield Street.
(5) That having regard to the Report of your Medical Officer
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) No. 36, Settles Street; 30 and 32, Plumber's Row—
To provide proper water supply to the closets thereat.
(b) No. 29, Yalford Street; 6 and 7, Coke Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(c) Nos. 36, 42, 50 and 70, Settles Street; 6, Greenfield
Street; 20 and 26, Yalford Street—
To pave the yards thereat.
(d) Nos. 36, 50, 52, 54, 68 and 70, Settles Street; 34,
Plumber's Row; 6, Greenfield Street—
To provide dust-bins or galvanized iron perforated pails for
the use of the tenants thereat.
(e) No. 50, Settles Street—
To cleanse and purify such house.
(f) Nos. 52, 54, 68 and 70, Settles Street—
To cleanse the passage walls thereof.
(g) Nos. 50, 52, 54, 68, 70 and 72, Settles Street—
To provide waste-pipes and gully-traps to sinks, properly
disconnected from drains thereat.