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]
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17 FEBRUARY, 1892.
(3) That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read
Reports for which your Committee beg to refer your Board
to their Report Books.
That having regard to such Reports your Committee
resolved to recommend—That Notices requiring the abatement
of nuisances existing at the under-mentioned premises,
and the execution of the following works at such premises
respectively, be served by the Sanitary Inspectors pursuant to
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:
(a) Nos. 68, Gold Street; 3, Union Street; and 7, Coke
Street—
To cleanse the drains thereat.
(b) No. 29, Duckett Street—
To repair defective drain thereat.
(c) Stables in rear of No. 1, Spring Garden Place—
To provide proper drains, trap drain in yard and pave the
yard thereat.
(d) No. 106, Oxford Street—
To cleanse cellar and provide proper drain to same.
(e) Nos. 1, 2, Cornwall Place; 1, 4, Cornwall Road; 1,
25, 10, James Street; 61, 81, Romford Street; 4, 8,
10, 26, Firmin Place; 1, York Passage; 3 to 9,
35 to 39, 43, 36, Entick Street; 23, Pole Street; 1,
Spring Garden Place; 11, 37, 41, 24 and 26, Yalford
Street—
To properly trap the sinks and drains thereat.
(f) Nos. 5 to 9, 33 to 51, 4, 34, 36, Entick Street; 1a,
and 5, Railway Place—
To disconnect the waste-pipes of sinks from direct communication
with the drains thereat.
(g) No. 9, Yalford Street—
To disconnect the water-supplies for domestic purposes
from those used for flushing the closets thereat.
(h) Nos. 2, Cornwall Road; 9, 11, 29, 31, 37, 10, 36,
James Street; 103, Jamaica Street; 13, 15, 39, 45,
51, Entick Street; 1, Spring Garden Place; 7, 9, 13
and 14, Coke Street—
To provide water-supplies to the closets thereat.
(i) Nos. 1, 4, Cornwall Place 51,55, 57, 61, 83, Romford
Street; 10, 26, Firmin Place; 3, 7, 17, 29, 31, 6, 22,
24, 30, Yalford Street; 6, Coke Street; and Workshop
at No. 42, Plumber's Row—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(J) Workshops at Nos. 41, 45, 47, 51, Raven Row; 208,
Mile End Road; 30, 44, 35, 39, 41, 57, and 67,
Plumber's Row—
To provide additional watercloset at each workshop for the
use of the women employed thereat.