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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48 20 MAY, 1891.
(k) No. 40, Nelson Street—
To cleanse all the rooms thereof.
(l) No. 5, Rowsell Street—
To cleanse the kitchen thereof.
(m) No. 6, Knott Street—
To repair the closet thereat.
(n) No. 21, Knott Street—
To cleanse the closet thereat.
(o) Nos. 13, 15, Rowsell Street; 8, Union Street; and
7, Knott Street—
To provide receptacles for the dust tor the use of the
tenants thereat.
(p) Nos. 13, Rowsell Street; 16, Union Street; 120,
Oxford Street; and 3, Knott Street—
To repair the yard paving thereat.
(4) That your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the owners of such of the houses
and premises who fail to carry out the orders of your Board
in respect of—
(a) Cleansing drains within forty-eight hours, and
(b) The other sanitary works within twenty-eight days
from the service of the notices, and that the Chairman sign
the necessary orders in each particular case, empowering
the Inspector of Nuisances for the district in which the
premises are situate to make complaints and take proceedings
on behalf of the Vestry.
(5) That your Sanitary Inspectors reported that since the last
meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:
Notices served for sanitary amendments 117
„ Re infectious diseases 9
Notice „ ,, offensive accumulation 1
Houses inspected 216
„ re-inspected 42
,, disinfected 7
„ cleansed 7
Drains cleansed 13
Drain tested and found defective 1
Water supplies provided to closets 59
Water supplies for domestic purposes dis-
connected from cisterns which supply the closets 14
Waste pipes of sinks disconnected from direct
communication with the drains 10
Magistrate's order obtained 1
Signed
geo. coker.
g. f. burge.
t. g. livermore.