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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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16 DECEMBER, 1891. 203
(i) No. 4, Bradwell Street—
To cleanse back room.
(j) Nos. 1a, Bromehead Road; 6, 7, Little Holloway
Street; 52, 115, 121, 123, Duckett Street; and 85 to
89, Greenfield Street—
To repair the dustbins or provide dust receptacles for the
use of the tenants thereat.
(k) Nos. 4, 12, 18 to 22, 40, 48 to 52, 1 to 9, 19, 21,
Bradwell Street; 1a, Bromehead Road; 52, 59, 123,
Duckett Street—
To properly pave the yards thereat.
(l) No. 123, Duckett Street—
To repair the closet thereat.
(4) 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 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.
(5) That Mr. Leshaw, one of your Inspectors under the Adulteration
of Food, &c., Acts, submitted three certificates of
your Analyst, certifying that three samples submitted to him
for analysis were as follows:
(a) A sample of Butter admixed with about 35 per cent.
of foreign fat (margarine);
(b & c) Two samples of Coffee admixed, respectively, with
about 75 and 70 per cent. of chicory.
That your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the persons who sold such samples
to your Inspector.
That Mr. Cox, the other of your Inspectors under the
Adulteration of Food, &c., Acts, submitted a certificate of
your Analyst certifying that a sample of Pepper submitted to
him for analysis was admixed with about 20 per cent. of
foreign starch, consisting mainly of rice, with a small proportion
of arrowroot.
Your Committee resolved to recommend—I hat proceedings
be taken against the person who sold such sample to
your Inspector.