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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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53A
22 MAY, 1889.
(d) Nos. 19, Carlton Road; and 51, Copley Street—
To separate sinks from drains.
(e) No. 26, Carlton Road—
To pave the yard.
(f) No. 44, Carlton Road—
To separate the water supply for domestic purposes, from
the closet.
(g) No. 2, Albion Court, Redman's Road—
To cleanse and purify house.
(h) No. 29, Copley Street—
To repair defective drain from gully in yard to sink, and
properly disconnect the waste-pipe from sink from direct
communication with drain.
(8) That your Inspector and Sub-Inspector reported that since
the last Report, the following works had been performed, viz.:
West.
Water supplies to closets 114
Receptacles for dust provided 31
Drains trapped 8
Yards paved 23
Houses disinfected 13
Drains cleansed 17
Offensive accumulations removed 1
(9) That your Sub-Inspector reported that pursuant to the instructions
of your Board, a summons was taken out against
Mrs. Marston, for the nuisance existing on the premises, Nos.
53 to 61, Old Church Road, and that an order had been made
by the magistrate for the abatement of such nuisance, and to
prevent its recurrence.
That notwithstanding such order, nothing had been done,
and that the premises were now in a condition dangerous to
health.
That your Committee beg to recommend—That further
proceedings be taken to have the premises shut up, until the
necessary works to abate the nuisance have been executed.
(10) That your Committee considered the reference of your
Board, as to the altering of the designation of Mr. Charles Cox
your Sub-Sanitary Inspector, and resolved to recommend—
That for the future Mr. Cox be designated Inspector of
Nuisances, in lieu of the term Sub-Inspector.
(11) That your Clerk submitted the quarterly Report of your
Analyst as follows :
Sale of Food and Drugs' Act, 1875.
Report of the Public Analyst appointed for the Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town, upon the articles analysed by
him under the above Act, during the quarter ending
the 25th March, 1889.