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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 MARCH, 1892.
(z) Nos. 66 to 74, 92, 98, 132, 162, 188 to 196, 220, 268,
270, Devonshire Street; 1 to 8, May's Buildings; 9,
19, 20, 22, 42, Portman Place; 4, 30 to 33, 36 to 38,
44 to 46, Allars Road; 20, 22, 28, 40, 3a, 5, 7, 21,
23, 31, 33, Cadiz Street; 24, 34, 60, 62, 74, 88, 92, 3,
65, 83, 103, 109, Heath Street; and 13, Mulberry
Street—
Such houses without ashpits or with no proper ashpits.
That the time allowed by such notices for the execution of
the works be as follows:
(a) For unstopping 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 Mr. Cox, one of your Inspectors under the Adulteration
of Food, &c., Acts, submitted a certificate (No. 108)
of your Analyst, certifying that a sample of butter was admixed
with about 85 per cent, of foreign fat (margarine), and
your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the person who sold such sample to your
Inspector.
(5) That your Surveyor submitted and your Committee considered
and approved an Estimate of the amount required for
the Half-year ending Michaelmas Day next, as follows, and
which your Committee recommend for adoption by your
Board:
Advertisements £2
Disinfectants—
For Sanitary Purposes 18
„ Sewers 30
Disinfecting oven, repairs 20
Gully grates, &c. 25
Garments for sewers men 13
Infectious diseases 32
Interest on loan 29
Jobbing sewers work 500
Labour—
Disinfecting 70
Cleansing sewers 300
Loan, repayment off 43
Mortality returns 15
Oil, candles, &c. 3