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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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6 MAY, 1891. 35
"causes was 71; 40 occurring in the Eastern district, 18
"in the Western district, and 13 in the outlying Institutions,
giving a death-rate equal to 16.0 per 1,000 per
"annum: that of the Metropolis being 20.2 for the same
" period."
(4) That your Inspectors of Nuisances brought up and read
Reports for which your Committee beg to refer your Board
to their Report Books.
That having regard to the Reports of your Medical Officer
and Inspectors your Committee resolved to recommend—That
notices be served upon the owners of the following houses and
premises, requiring them to perform the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 5, Lomas Buildings; 3, 5, 7, Clinton Road;
112, Skidmore Street; and 13, Trafalgar Square—
To cleanse the drains thereat.
(b) Nos. 112, Skidmore Street; and 13, Trafalgar
Square—
To amend the drains thereat.
(c) Nos. 9 to 11, 23 to 25, Hall Street; & 31, King John
Street—
To disconnect the waste pipes of sinks from direct communication
with the drains thereat.
(d) No. 45, Commercial Road—
To repair the defective waste pipe of sink thereat.
(e) No. 21, Hall Street; 38 to 46, 50, 54 to 120, 43 to
103, Clark Street—
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(f) No. 89, Grosvenor Street—
To repair flushing apparatus to the closet thereat.
(g) Nos. 1 to 8, 12,14, 20, 23 to 25, Hall Street; & 30 to
40, Nicholas Street—
To disconnect the water supplies for domestic purposes
from those used for flushing the closets thereat.
(h) No. 1, Thomas' Yard, Ben Jonson Road—
To cleanse and lime-white the two warehouses thereof.
(i) Nos. 9, Hall Street; and 45, Commercial Road—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(j) No. 1, Hall Street—
To cleanse the kitchen thereof.
(k) No. 15, Hall Street—
To pave the yard thereof.
And upon the owners of
(l) Sidney Square—
To abate the nuisance arising from dead cats, dogs, fowls,
&c., deposited in the Square.