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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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7 MAY, 1890.
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee No. 3.
For Drainage, Sewerage and Nuisances.
Wednesday, 7th May, 1890.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Tuesday
the 29th day of April, ult., there being present Messrs
Coker, E. Kemp, Burge, Livermore, Lyons T. J. Smith
Charrington, and Birks. '
(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 submitted a claim for £3 6s. 7d. from
Mr. J. Dolphin, being the costs in unstopping drains at Nos. 12,
13, & 14, Forester Street, and your Committee resolved to
recommend—That your Board deny liability in the matter.
(2) 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 April 19th, the num"ber
of Births was 173: the number of deaths from all
"causes was 72; 44 occurring in the Eastern district,
"17 in the Western, and 11 in the outlying institutions,
"giving a death-rate equal to 16.1 per 1,000 per annum:
"that of the Metropolis being 19.0 for the same period."
(3) That having regard to the Report of your Medical Officer
your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
betaken against the owners of Nos. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17,
Exmouth Court, to compel compliance with the order ol the
Vestry as to the performance of certain sanitary works.
(4) That your Medical Officer reported specially on the condition
of private schools in the Hamlet, and your Committee
resolved to recommend—That a copy of such part thereof as
affects any school be sent to such school.
(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.:
0) Nos. 9, 10, Exmouth Court; 971, Edinboro' Road;
28 and 38 to 54, Jamaica Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust.