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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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10 JUNE, 1891.
Houses inspected 288
„ re-inspected 81
„ disinfected 6
„ cleansed 20
Drains cleansed 9
„ trapped 4
Drain tested and found defective 1
„ „ „ not defective 1
Cesspools abolished 2
Stables paved and drained 2
Yards paved 8
Water supplies provided to closets 18
Water supplies separated from cisterns which
supply the closets 25
Waste pipes of sinks disconnected from direct
communication with the drains 14
Receptacles for dust provided 5
Roofs and gutters repointed 5
Magistrates orders obtained to close houses
under Nuisance Removal Acts 5
t. g. livermore.
Signed alfred druitt.
geo. coker.
Moved by Mr. Coker seconded by Mr. Burge and resolved
—That the Report be received.
Moved by Mr. Coker seconded by Mr. Burge and resolved
—That the Report be adopted and it was resolved accordingly.
VII. The Report of the Dusting and Cleansing Committee was
brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee for Dusting and Cleansing,
Wednesday, 10th June, 1891.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Monday
the 1st day of June, inst., there being present Messrs.
Bull, Robertson, Manchee, Martin, Cook, Browning, and
Upton.
That your Surveyor brought up and read a Report for
which your Committee beg to refer your Board to his Report
Book.
(1) That your Committee examined samples and considered
tenders for the supply of fodder as follows: