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74
11 JUNE, 1890.
Your Committee approved of his proceedings and submit
same for confirmation by your Board.
(2) That your Committee having considered a number of complaints
of offensive smells arising from the ventilating gratings
in St. Paul's Road, and having regard to the Report of your
Surveyor, your Committee resolved to recommend—That six
of Knight's Patent Deodorisers be placed at the ventilating
gratings in St. Paul's Road, and two in Burdett Road, the
estimated cost being £3 4s. each.
(3) 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 three weeks ending May 24th, the number
of Births was 211: the number of Deaths from all
"causes was 101; 33 in the Western, 60 in the Eastern
"district, and 8 in outlying institutions, giving a death"rate
equal to 16.5 per 1,000 per annum: that of the
"Metropolis being 17.2 for the same period."
(4) 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.:
(a) Xos. 1 to 4, Hayfield Yard; 184, Mile End Road;
72 to 78, Rhodeswell Road; and 361, Commercial
Road—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(b) Xos. 14, Alma Road; 50, Rhodeswell Road; 116 to
120, Duckett Street; 2, 4, 12, Lomas Buildings; 78,
Heath Street; and 17, Plumber's Row—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(c) Xos. 14, 25 to 27, 40 to 44, Alma Road; 1 to 14, 16,
Salisbury Street; 74, 76, Rhodeswell Road; 1, Hayfield
Yard; 116 to 120, Duckett Street; 2 to 5, 19,
20 and 30, Lomas Buildings—
To provide receptacles for the dust for the use of the
tenants thereat.
(d) Xos. 44, Alma Road ; 23 to 27 Salisbury Street—
To disconnect sinks from direct communication with the
drains thereat.
(e) Xos. 1 to 14, 16, 20, 21, 23 to 27, Salisbury Street—
To separate the water supply for domestic purposes from
that used for flushing the closets.