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21 MAY, 1890. 57
Committees respectively prior to the Annual Election in the
present month of May.
VIII. Mr. J. M. Knight, the Surveyor submitted his Reports
on the Reports of the Medical Officer of Health in relation
to the premises Nos. 438, 442, 444, & 446, Mile End Road,
and Nos. 3, 4, 5 & 6,Exmouth Court, pursuant to the Artizans
and Labourers Dwellings Act, 1868, as follows:
Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Vestry Hall, Bancroft Road, Mile End Road, E.
May 21st, 1890.
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Gentlemen,
Re 438, Mile End Road.
I have considered the report of the Medical Officer
of Health referred to me at your meeting held on the 7th
day of May, in respect of the house and premises known
as No. 438, Mile End Road, under the provisions of the
Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings' Act, 1868.
The complaint contained in the said report of the
Medical Officer of Health is—
That the roof is defective.
That the walls of living rooms are damp.
That the floor boards are defective and decayed.
That there is no proper ventilation under the floor.
That the premises are in a dilapidated condition.
The cause of the complaint made in the said Report of
the Medical Officer of Health is owing partly to defects
in the original construction of the house, and partly to its
age and natural decay.
The remedy for the complaint contained in the said
Report is to take up the ground floor of the house and
excavate the earth to a depth sufficient to allow of a
space of six inches between a bed of concrete and the
underside of the joists. To put a bed of six inches of
concrete over the site of the house and to construct ventilating
pits to allow of the circulation of air beneath the
floor. To cut out the present footings of the party and
other walls, and also so much of the walls as are built
with porous or decayed bricks, and to rebuild the same,
inserting a proper damp proof course, To lay new
flooring boards and joists in the place of those which are
decayed or broken.
To take off the roof and remove all the decayed plates,
rafters, and other timbers, and to replace the same with
new.
To make good all defective gutters, down pipes,
plastering, hearths, stoves, treads of stairs and other
wood work.