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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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14 8 APRIL 1891.
"1,000 per annum: that of the Metropolis being 22.5
"for the same period."
and your Committee resolved to recommend—That the same
be received.
(2) That your Inspectors of Nuisances 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 Inspectors your Committee resolved to recommendThat
notices be served upon the owners of the following
houses and premises, requiring them to perform the following
works, viz.:
(a) Bedford House, Bedford Street—
To cleanse and amend drain and repair waste pipes to sinks
thereat.
(b) Nos. 23 St. Thomas' Road; 58, 70, 120, 130 Duckett
Street; 23 and 25 Redman's Road—
To properly trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(c) Nos. 118 and 120, Duckett Street—
To provide new pans to the closets thereat.
(d) Nos. 1 to 7, 25, 27, 33 to 45, 50 and 52, St. Thomas'
Road—
To disconnect the waste pipes of sinks from direct communication
with the drains thereat.
(e) Nos. 1 to 4, 7, 9, 11 to 14, North Square; 8, 10,
Frimley Street; 63, 112 to 116, Duckett Street; 1,
4 to 8, Swan Court, Mile End Road—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(f) Nos. 51, 12, 36 to 40, 70, 82, 118, 120, 130, and
Bedford House, Bedford Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(g) Nos. 25, 31 to 39, 2 to 22, 34, 36, St. Thomas'
Road; 16, Robeson Street; 93, Antill Road; 7,
Ashcroft Road—
To disconnect the water supply for domestic purposes from
that used for flushing the closets thereat.
(h) No. 5, Swan Court Mile End Road—
To cleanse and remove cause of dampness from the walls
thereof.
(i) Nos. 1, 5, 21, 25, 27, 60, St. Thomas' Road; 8, 10,
Frimley Street; 77, 36, Duckett Street; 23 and 2;,
Redman's Road— 0
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(j) Nos. 43 and 4, St. Thomas' Road—
To cleanse the kitchens thereof
(k) Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, Swan Court Mile End Road—
To cleanse and lime white the closets thereat.