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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29 OCTOBER, 1890.
Sewerage, and Nuisances, be appointed a Committee for all
the purposes of the Housing of the Working Classes' Act,
1890, except the making ot orders which, under the Act,
require to be under the Seal of the Vestry.
(6) That your Inspectors of Nuisances 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. 83 to 87, 99 to 107, 113, 117 to 141, Rutland
Street; 50, 53, 54, 68, 74, 86, 88, Ocean Street; 1 to
8, 11 to 19, 24, 26, 27, Mile End Place; 15 to 19,
16, 18, 22, and 26, Knott Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(b) Nos. 27, 29, and 32, Knott Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(c) Nos. 12, Rowsell Street; 20, 21, 23, and 25, Mile
End Place—
To separate the water-supply for domestic purposes from
that used for flushing the closets.
(d) Nos. 47, 51, 53, 55, 61, 67 to 71, 77, 44, 46, 52 to
58, 76, 88, Ocean Street; 121, 131, Oxford Street;
64, Redman's Road; 7, 28, Mile End Place; 4,
Caroline Place; 3, 37, 16, and 18, Knott Street—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(e) Nos. 51, 53, 61, 65 to 69, 77, 44, 50, 58, 60, 68, 72,
Ocean Street; and 64, Redman's Road—
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(f) Nos. 49, 81, 46, 54, Ocean Street; 129, 131, Oxford
Street; 3, 15, 16, and 18, Knott Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust for the use ot the
tenants thereat.
(g) Nos. 39, 45, 49, 51; 44; 50 to 54, 62 70, 80, 86
Ocean Street; 131, Oxford Street; 64, Redmans
Road; 17, 23, 27, 29, 33, 45, 10 to 18, 38, 40, 46, 50,
Knott Street; 36, Lydia Street; and 22, Mile End
Place—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(h) Nos. 55, 67, 58, 88, Ocean Street; 129, Oxford
Street; 12, Rowsell Street; and 19, Knott Street
To cleanse staircase and passage walls there of.