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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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71A
12 JUNE, 1889.
(h) Nos. 24, 91 and 115, Grosvenor Street; 6, Calverley
Street—
To cleanse closet pans thereat.
(i) No. 2 Grosvenor Street—
To repair rain water stackpipe at back of house and
disconnect from direct communication with drain.
(j) No. 32, Grosvenor Street—
To provide a drain to area therereat.
(k) No. 32, Grosvenor Street—
To discontinue use of underground room as a sleeping
apartment.
(l) No. 71, Grosvenor Street—
To cleanse ceiling and walls of kitchen and wash-house
thereat.
(m) Nos. 22 and 54, Copley Street; 5, 8, 16 and 18,
Calverley Street—
To separate the water supply used for domestic purposes
from that used for flushing the closet.
(n) No. 17, Bromehead Street—
To repair defective drain between gully in yard and closet,
and to provide water supply to closet thereat.
(4) That ydur Inspectors reported that since the last meeting
the following works had been performed, viz.:
Water supplied to closets 98
Yards paved 27
Receptacles for dust provided 36
Drains trapped 12
Drains cleansed 10
Houses disinfected 10
Water supply for drinking purposes separated
from that used for flushing the closets 12
(5) That your Inspector Mr. Leshaw reported that he had
visited the premises 36, St. Ann's Road, on complaint and
memorial of a nuisance arising from the drying of Fish to
make Finings, a preliminary notice was served and the work
was stopped.
(6) That your Inspector Mr. Cox reported that on informing
the owner of 29, Cadiz Street, that he had received instructions
from your Board to take out a summons re foul drain thereat,
and that he granted him 24 hours in which to do the work.
This was done and the nuisance abated, proceedings were in
consequence not taken.
(7) That Mr. Cox, your Inspector under the Adulteration Act,
submitted nine certificates of your Analyst as follows: