Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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6 AUGUST, 1890. 139
(1) That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
That your Surveyor reported that he had received notices
from the following persons of their intention to drain the
following houses and premises into the sewers, viz;
Taylor, T. Commercial Wharf, Mile End Road.
Chaney, W. H. (amended application) 17 houses in
Settles Street.
and that on behalf of your Board he had given such directions
with respect to the same as appear in his books and the plans
submitted.
Your Committee approved of his proceedings and submit
same for confirmation by your Board.
(2) That having regard to the Report of your Surveyor, your
Committee resolved to recommend—That two of Knight's
Patent Deodorisers be placed at the ventilating gratings in
Robeson Street, the estimated cost being £3 4s. each.
(5) 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 fortnight ending July 19th, the number
"of Births was 148: the number of Deaths from all
"causes was 91; 24 occurring in the Western district, 57
"in the Eastern district, and 10 in the outlying Insti"tutions,
giving a death-rate equal to 20.2 per 1,000 per
"annum: that of the Metropolis being 17.6 tor the same
" period."
(4) 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 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. 4, 12 to 36, 58, 60, Turner Street; 1, 3 to 12,
14, 15, 19 to 21, 24 to 31, Patterson Street, 64,
St. Paul's Road; 1, 17, 19, Wolsey Street; 34,
Perth Street; 2, 13, 14, 15 and 16, Gray Street-
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(4) Nos. 11, Horsley Buildings; 2, 19, 23, 25, John's
Place; 23, Perth Street; 20, 21, Bermuda Street;
29 to 31, 'Baker Street; 15 and 16, Perth. Street-
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.