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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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70A
12 JUNE, 1889.
(2) That your Medical Officer reported as follows:
"During the four weeks ending June 1st, the number
"of Births have been 284—148 males and 136 females.
"The number of Deaths from all causes were 115—59 males
"and 56 females, giving a death-rate of 13.3 per 1,000
"per annum; that of the Metropolis being 14.8 for the
"same period.
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 in St. Peter's
Street, Grosvenor Street, Copley Street, Latimer Street,
Calverley Street, Bromehead Street, requiring them to perform
the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 5, 85 to 89 and 97 to 101, St. Peter's Street; 2
to 20, 24 to 32, 1, 3, 11 to 31, 37 to 87, 91, 95 to 103,
and 107 to 111, Grosvenor Street; 8 to 12, 32 and 60,
Copley Street; 26, 28, and 32 to 44, Latimer Street;
19, 23, 25, and 14, Calverley Street—
To provide proper water supplies to the closets thereat.
(b) Nos. 95, St. Peter's Street; 2, 103, 111, 71, 73, and
77, Grosvenor Street; 1, 3, 7, 9 to 13, 17 to 23, and 6
to 18, Calverley Street—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(c) Nos. 95, St. Peter's Street; 7, 11, 13, 25, 29, 31, 47
and 91, Grosvenor Street; and 3, Latimer Street—
To provide dust bins or galvanized iron pails for the use of
the tenants thereat.
(d) Nos. 3, 27, 37, 41 to 45, 49, 51, 57 to 61, 65, 71, 77,
81, 95 to 107, Grosvenor Street; -26 and 70, Copley
Street; 1 and 8, Calverley Street—
To repair dustbins thereat.
(e) Nos. 95, St. Peter's Street; 24, Grosvenor Street; 2
and 19, Calverley Street—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(f) Nos. 10 and 12, St. Peter's Street; 81 to 85, and 91,
Grosvenor Street; 26, 32 and 70, Copley Street; 16
and 18, Calverley Street—
To properly trap the sinks thereat.
(g) Nos. 7 to 15, and 49, St. Peter's Street; 85,
Grosvenor Street; 26 and 30, Copley Street; 1,
3, 7, 9 to 13, 17 to 23, and 6 to 18, Calverley Street—
To properly disconnect the waste pipes of sinks from direct
communication with drains thereat.