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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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226 17 DECEMBER, 1890.
(r) Nos. 8 to 20, 42, 44, 58, 96 to 124, 128 to 142, Harford
Street; 23, Eagle Place; 11 to 21, 25 to 41.
Varden Street; and 21, Charles Street—
To disconnect the down-pipes of sinks from direct communication
with the drains thereat.
(d) No. 37, Varden Street—
To repair the yard gully trap thereat.
(e) Nos. 25 to 41, Varden Street—
To drain the areas thereat.
(/) No. 41, Varden Street—
To pave the area thereat.
(g) Nos. 24 to 28, Harford Street—
To pave the yards thereat.
(h) Nos. 24 to 28, Harford Street; 25, Varden Street;
and the houses in Adelina Grove—
To provide receptacles for the dust for the use of the
tenants thereat.
(1) Nos. 24, 26, 28, Harford Street; 27, Longnor Road;
and 4, Single Place—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(/) No. 94, Nelson Street—
To cleanse wtills and ceilings of passages, basement and
ground floor rooms.
(k) No. 2, Sidney Street:—
To cleanse passages and staircase walls.
(/) No. 23, Eagle Place—
To repair the roof thereof.
And upon the owner and occupier of:
(;;/) No. 67, Plumber's Row—
To discontinue using the shed in the rear thereof as a sleeping
apartment.
(6) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the owners of such of the houses
and premises who fail to carry out the orders of your Board
for performance of sanitary works thereat within one month.
(7) That Mr. Cox, one of your Inspectors under the Adulteration
of Food, &c., Acts, submitted 12 certificates of your Analyst
of articles analysed by him, certifying that two samples of
Milk were adulterated with about 6 per cent, and 18 percent.