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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254 4 FEBRUARY, 1891.
(h) No. 15, Canal Road—
To repair flooring of basement thereof.
(i) No. 117, Old Church Road—
To repair the plaster of walls and remove cause of dampness
of the walls thereof.
(j) Nos. 9, Salmen Street; and 15, Canal Road—
To repair the closets thereat.
(k) Nos. 4, 9, Cordelia Street; 10, 11, 16, Salmen Street;
66, 68, Varden Street; and 126, Ducket Street—
To pave the yards thereat.
(/) No. 66, Varden Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust for the use of the tenants
thereat.
(m) No. 2, Spring Garden Place—
To repair the floor-boards, cleanse and purify the house and
bake-house, and repair the roof thereof.
(n) No. 4, Spring Garden Place—
To cleanse the shop and repair ceiling.
(4) 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 fourteen
days from the service of the notice, and that the Chairman
sign the necessary orders in each particular case, empowering
the Inspector of Nuisances for the district in which the
premises are situate to make complaints and take proceedings
on behalf of the Vestry.
(5) That your Clerk submitted the Quarterly Report of your
Analyst, as follows:
Sale of Food and Drugs' Act, 1875.
Report of the Public Analyst appointed for the Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town, upon the articles analysed by
him under the above Act, during the quarter ending the
25th December, 1890.
Gin 33°2 under proof, Genuine.
„ 30°3 „ „
„ 30° „ „
Milk Genuine.
„ Admixed with about six per cent.of
added water.
„ Genuine.
Coffee „