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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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140 2 OCTOBER, 1891.
(f) Nos. 14 18, 40, Perth Street; 457, Commercial
Road; 2, Ocean Street; & 72 Gold StreetTo
repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(g) Nos 21,Perth Street; 457, Commercial Road, 70a,
Shandy Street; & 68, Stepney GreenTo
repair the roofs thereof.
(h) No. 2, Ocean Street—
To disconnect the rain water-pipe from direct communication
with the drain thereat.
(i) Nos. 13, & 14. Perth Street—
To remove cause of dampness to the walls thereof.
(j) No. 72, Gold Street—
To repair the defective plaster of walls thereof.
(k) No. 22, Perth Street—
To remove the rotten floor-boards thereat.
(l) Nos. 30, Albion Street; 13, 33, 47, 8, Carter Street;
28 to 32 (consecutive) Allars Road; 4, 6, 7, 17, 18,
22, 31, 32, 34, 45, Perth Street; 68, Stepney Green;
66, Gold Street; & 19, Copley Street—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(m) No. 72, Gold Street—
To cleanse passage, staircase and kitchen walls thereof.
(n) No. 38, Perth Street—
To provide new pan to closet thereat.
(o) No. 51, Carter Street—
To drain and pave the stables thereat.
(p) Nos. 12, 16, 18, Albion Street; 29, 33, 8, Carter
Street; 14, Perth Street; & 19, Copley Street—
To pave or repair the paving of the yards thereof.
(q) Nos. 7, 14, 22, 49, Perth Street; 2, Ocean Street; 68,
Stepney Green ; & 60, Gold Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust or repair the dustbins
thereat.
(6) 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 tor 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 tor the district in which the premises are situate,
to make complaints and take proceedings on behalf of the
Vestry.
(7) That having regard to the Report of Mr. Leshaw your
Inspector your Committee resolved to recommend—That one
of Knight's patent deodorisers be placed at the ventilating
grate in Nicholas Street, the estimated cost being £3 4/-.