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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.
(b) Nos. 9 and 10, Exmouth Court—
To cleanse and lime-white the water closets thereat.
(c) Nos. 440, Mile End Road; 4, Spring Garden Place—
To remove cause of dampness thereat.
(d) Nos. 137, 139, St. Paul's Road; 24, 26 and 97½,
Edinboro' Road—
To separate the water supply for domestic purposes from
that used for flushing the closets.
(e) Nos. 137, 139, St. Paul's Road; 1 and 97½, Edinboro'
Road—
To separate the sink pipes from direct communication with
the drains thereat.
(f) Nos. 24, Edinboro' Road; 49, Brantridge Street—
To cleanse such houses.
(g) Nos. 2, 6, 10, 12, 26, 91\, Edinboro' Road; 102,
Globe Road; 28, 36 to 42, 48 to 54, Jamaica Street;
29 and 31, Bridge Street—
To pave the yards thereat.
(h) No. 102, Globe Road—
To properly drain the stables thereat.
(i) Nos. 622, Mile End Road; 2, 4, 6, 10 to 16, 26, 28,
36 to 54, 58, 60, 62, 70 to 84, 90 to no, 120, 122,
126, 130, Jamaica Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(j) No. 28, Jamaica Street—
To cleanse the pan of closet thereat.
(k') Nos. 48, 58 and 60, Jamaica Street—
To trap the yard gullies thereat.
and upon the owner and occupier of:
(/) No. 2, Salisbury Street—
To prevent the over-crowding thereat.
(6) That in order to afford a better drainage of the houses in
Cecil Street and Leslie Street, your Committee instructed your
Surveyor to construct sixty feet of pipe sewer in each of those
streets at an estimated cost of £10 each, and recommend—
That their proceedings be approved, it being in the opinion of
your Committee a matter of emergency.
(7) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
present pipe sewer in Canal Road, situate between Bridge
Street and Forester Street be reconstructed and drained into
Burdett Road through Bridge Street, and that the sewer in
Bridge Street be reconstructed at an estimated cost of £90,
and further that the work be done under the present Jobbing
Sewers Contract.
(8) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
present Urinal in West Arbour Street be removed and placed