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]
This page requires JavaScript
11 JUNE, 1890.
75
(f) Nos. 74, Rhodeswell Road, and 36, Plumber's RowTo
provide new pans to closets thereat.
(g) Nos. 116 and 118, Duckett Street—
To cleanse the pans of closets thereat.
(h) Rhodeswell Road; 1, Hayfield Yard; 184,
Mile End Road; 2, 6, Charles Court; 1 and 3,
Plumbers Row; and 78, Heath Street.
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(i) Nos. 50, Rhodeswell Road; 1,4, Hayfield Yard; 3,
6 to 9, 11, Lomas Buildings; 59, 61, 80, 88, Ocean
Street—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(j) Nos. 116, 118, 122, Duckett Street; 2, 6 to 9, 19,
Lomas Buildings; 90, Ocean Street; 6, Charles
Court; 1 and 3, Plumber's Row—
To properly repair the flushing apparatus to closets thereat.
(k) No. 2, Lomas Buildings—
10 remove damp and rotten floorboards of closet thereat.
(l) No. 16, Lomas Buildings—
To cleanse walls of closet thereat.
(m)Nos. 16, 17, 21, 22 and 24, Lomas Buildings—
To remove the cause of dampness to the walls of such
houses.
(n) Nos. 6, Charles Court; 1, 3, 4, 9, and 15, Plumber's
Row-
To cleanse passages and staircase walls thereof.
(o) No. 17, Plumber's Row—
To repair defective plaster to walls and ceilings, and remove
rotten and decayed floor boards thereat.
(p) Nos. 3 & 4, Lomas Buildings—
To properly repair the defective drains thereat.
(q) Nos. 11 to 14, Cecil Street—
To unstop the drains thereat, and that in default proceedings
be taken to compel compliance therewith.
And upon the owners and occupiers of:
(r) Nos. 2, 3, & 6, Smith Place, Garden Street—
To discontinue using the underground rooms thereat as
sleeping apartments.
(5) That Mr. Cox, your Inspector under the Adulteration of
Food, &c., Acts, submitted a certificate of your Analyst
certifying that a sample of milk submitted to him tor analysis
contained 14 per cent. of added water, and your Committee