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Mile End 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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22 JULY, 1891.
97
(t) No. 9, Exmouth Court—
To cleanse walls and ceiling of kitchen thereof.
(u) No. 176, Oxford Street—
To provide new pan to closet and cleanse closet thereat.
(v) No. 7, Exmouth CourtTo
repair the closet thereat.
(w) No. 4, Silver Street—
To provide proper surface drainage to yard thereat.
(x) No. 32, West Street—
To remove the dampness from the walls thereof.
(5) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That
proceedings be taken against the owners of such of the
houses and premises who fail to carry out the orders of your
Board in respect of
(a) Cleansing and unstopping drains within 48 hours ; and
(b) The other sanitary works within 28 days
from the service of the notices, and that the Chairman
sign the necessary orders in each particular case, empowering
the Inspector of Nuisances for the district in which
the premises are situate, to make complaints and take proceedings
on behalf of the Vestry.
(6) That your Committee considered a Memorial from owners
of property in Ben Jonson Road, complaining of the flooding
of the basements of houses in such road at times of heavy
rainfall caused by insufficiency of the sewer belonging to the
London County Council and resolved to recommend—That a
copy of such Memorial be sent to the London County
Council, and that the Council be urged to take steps to
remedy the evil as soon as possible.
(7) That your Clerk submitted the Quarterly Report of your
Analyst, as follows:
Sale of Food and Drugs' Act, 1875.
Report of the Public Analyst appointed for the Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town, upon the articles analysed by
him under the above Act, during the quarter ending the
24th June, 1891.
Butter 41c Is margarine and not butter.
„ 42c Genuine.
,, 43c „
,, 44c „
,, 45c „
,, 46c „
,, 39l „
,, 40l „
,, 41l „