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Mile End 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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2 APRIL, 1890.
Your Committee approved of his proceedings and submit
same for confirmation by your Board.
(2) That your Committee further considered and inspected the
premises and roadway leading to Messrs. Spills' premises,
Mile End Road, and resolved to recommend—That the
owner of the Beer House, No. 254, Mile End Road, the corner
at entrance to Messrs. Spills' factory, be asked to enlarge the
Urinal belonging thereto, and to properly screen the same.
(3) That your Committee having regard to the complaints of a
nuisance existing at the corner next to 161, Ernest Street,
resolved to recommend—That your Surveyor be instructed to
fill in with brick work the corner referred to, at an estimated
cost of £2.
(4) That your Medical Officer of Health brought up and read
a Report for which your Committee beg to refer your Board
to his Report Book.
That your Medical Officer reported as follows :
"During the two weeks ending 15th March, the num"ber
of Births was 175: the number of deaths from all
"causes was 94; 28 occurring in the Western, 64 in the
"Eastern district, and 2 in the outlying institutions,
"giving a death-rate equal to 20.9 per 1,000 per annum:
"that of the Metropolis being 2 1.6 for the same period."
(5) That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read reports
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
That having regard to the Reports of your Medical Officer
and Sanitary Inspectors 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) Nos. 105, Ernest Street; and 24, Greenfield
Street—
To discontinue using the yards thereat as stables, and that
in the event of non-compliance therewith within seven
days, proceedings be taken to enforce notices.
(b) Nos. 26, Lydia Street; 65, Turner Street; 7, Eastbury
Terrace; 31, 33, 39, 40 and 44, Ely Terrace—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(c) Nos. 27, Lydia Street; 51, Wilson Street; 67, Ely
Terrace; 2, 6, 8, 28, Firmin Place; 17, 19, 21, 25,
31, 73 and 75, Romford Street—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(d) No. 65, Turner Street—
To cleanse basement walls and ceilings of such house.