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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10 JUNE, 1891. 59
(d) Nos. 21, 23, 29 to 39, 45, 47, 51 to 55, 2 to 30, Joseph
Street; 1 to 47, 51, 53, 2 to 24, 28, to 56, Huddart
Street; 145, Bow Common Lane; & 383, Mile End
Road—
To disconnect the water supplies for domestic purposes
from those used for flushing the closets thereat.
(e) Nos. 13, Park Road; 8, 12 & 16, Yalford Street;
To provide water supply to the closets thereat.
(/) Nos. 11, 26, Yalford Street; 19, 41, 55, 57, 79,
Romford Street; 52, Plumber's Row; 13, 86, & 89,
Greenfield Street—
To repair the flushing apparatus to the closets thereat.
(g) No. 11, Yalford Street—
To repair the roof thereof.
(h) Nos. 13, 31, 49, 53, Joseph Street; 13 Park Road;
12, 16, Yalford Street; 13, 21, 25, 53, 55, Romford
Street; & 1, Gateshead Place—
To cleanse and purify such houses.
(i) No. 37, Romford Street—
To cleanse passage walls thereof.
(j ) No. 45, Romford Street—
To cleanse passage and staircase walls thereof.
(K) No. 57, Romford Street—
To cleanse kitchen thereof.
(l) No. 14, Yalford Street—
To cleanse pan of closet thereat.
(m) Xo. 89, Nelson Street —
To provide receptacle for the dust for the use of the tenants
thereat.
(n) Xos. 9 to 17, Joseph Street; 30, Yalford Street; 89
& 96, Nelson Street—
To pave the yards 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 the 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 138
„ „ Re infectious diseases 13