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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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350 17 FEBRUARY, 1892.
(za) Nos. 4, Cornwall Place; 9, 11, 39, 2, 8, 36, James
Street; 81, Romford Street; 3, 35, 45, 47, Entick
Street; and 2, Railway Place—
To provide dustbins or receptacles for the dust for the use
of the tenants thereat.
(zb) Nos. 1, 2, Cornwall Place; 1, Cornwall Road; 37, 2,
4, 10, James Street; 16, Firmin Place; 45, Plumber's
Row; 1, 15, 19, 28, 30, Entick Street; 3, Railway
Place; 1, Spring Garden Place; 7½, 23, 33, 30,
Yalford Street; 3, 4, Coke Street; and Workshop at
No. 42, Plumber's Row—
To pave or repair the paving of the yards thereof.
(zc) No. 63, Plumber's Row—
To abate the overcrowding thereat.
That the time allowed by such Notices for the execution of
the works be as follows:
(a) For cleansing drains—48 hours;
(b) The other sanitary works—28 days
from the service of the Notices; and that proceedings be
taken against such of the persons who fail to carry out the
requirements of such Notices, and that the Chairman sign the
necessary Orders in each particular case, empowering the
Sanitary Inspector for the district in which the premises are
situate, to make complaints and take proceedings on behalf
of the Vestry.
(4) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That the
Vestry of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster Vestry be
informed (in reply to their circular letter of 22nd ult.) that
this Vestry do not deem it advisable at present to add measles
to the list of Infectious Diseases of which notification has to
be given under the Public Health (London) Act applies.
(5) That your Clerk read a letter of the 5th inst. from the
Local Government Board, enclosing copy of a letter of the
19th January last, addressed to that Board by the Board of
Trade, stating that the Board of Trade were desirous of
ascertaining whether the immigration of destitute aliens
(especially Russian and Polish Jews) into London, had increased
or not within the last twelve months, and your
Committee resolved to recommend—That the Local Government
Board be informed that there has been, and continues to
be appreciable increase in the immigration of destitute aliens,
specially Polish and Russian Jews.
(6) That, pursuant to the reference of your Board, your Committee
received and considered applications from candidates
for the office of Clerk in the Sanitary Department,