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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16 MARCH, 1892.
That having regard to such Reports your Committee
resolved to recommend—That Notices requiring the abatement
of the following nuisances existing at the under-mentioned
premises respectively, be served by the Sanitary Inspectors
pursuant to the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:
(a) Nos. 40 and 42, Cadiz Street—
Stopped drains thereat.
(1b) Nos. 40 and 42, Cadiz Street—
Defective drains thereat.
(c) Nos. 52, 246, 248, Devonshire Street; 17, 18, Portman
Place; 5, Allars Road; 5, Sion Square; 62, 7, 9, 15,
Cadiz Street; 18, 44, 64, 88, 92, 108, 114, 33, 55, 59,
97, 103, 115, Heath Street; 3 and 28, Plumber's
Row—
Yard gullies thereat not trapped or improperly trapped.
(d) Nos. 16, 52, 66, 68, 74, 76, 86, 88, 92, 108, no, 116,
122, 126, 128, 142, 188, 190, 198, 200, 212, 238 to
242, 250 to 254, 262, 270, Devonshire Street; 21, 23,
31, 35 to 47, 4 to 18, Portman Place; 4, 5, 7, 10 to
27, 35, 47 to 58, Allars Road; 12, 1 to 19, and 25,
Heath Street—
Waste pipes of sinks in direct communication with the
drains thereat.
(e) Nos. 66, 68, 86, 88, Devonshire Street; 59, 61, Allars
Road; and 1, Heath Street—
Water supplies for domestic purposes connected with those
used for flushing the closets thereat.
(/) Nos. 60, 74, 92, 106, 132, Devonshire Street; 7, 9, 4
to 12, 18, Portman Place ; 13, North Square; 56, 58,
Allars Road; 7, n, Sion Square; 14, Mulberry Street;
30, 62, 3a, 7,13, 15, 21, 29, 49, 53 to 57, Cadiz Street;
44, 62, 112, 17, 27, 33, 53, 83,115, Heath Street; and
37 to 43, Hawkins Street —
Closets thereat without water supply.
(g) Nos. 26, Portman Place; 20 and 7, Cadiz Street—
Roofs thereof defective.
(h) Nos. 31, Portman Place; 40, 3, Heath Street; 3 and
5, Plumber's Row—
Walls thereof damp.
(i) No. 106, Heath Street—
Staircase thereof damp.
(j) No. 103, Heath Street—
Passage thereof damp.