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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Mile End 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]

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12
30 march, 1892.
empowering the Sanitary Inspector to make complaints and
take proceedings on behalf of the Vestry.
(5) That Mr. Cox, your Inspector under the Adulteration cf
Food, &c., Acts, submitted three certificates of your Analyst
as follows:
Nos. 120 and 136.—Each certifying that a sample purchased
for butter was not butter but margarine.
No. 116.—Certifying that a sample of milk contained
about ten per cent, less than the usual proportion of
cream, in other words about ten per cent, of the cream
had been abstracted.
and your Committee resolved to recommend—That proceedings
be taken against the two persons who sold to your
Inspector samples of margarine without having conformed to
the provisions of the Margarine Act; and
That the person who sold the sample of milk containing
ten per cent, less than the usual proportion of cream be
cautioned.

Table: (6) That Mr. Cox, your Sanitary Inspector, reported that since the last meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:

(6) That Mr. Cox, your Sanitary Inspector, reported that since the last meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:

East.West.Total.
Houses inspected0254254
„ found to be in a good sanitary
condition0168168
Houses and premises in which nuisances were found to exist08686
Houses re-inspected301040
Orders of Vestry complied with151025
„ „ partially complied with909
Premises in which no part of work has been carried out606
Notices served for sanitary amendments09696
„ „ Re infectious diseases01616
Drains cleansed033
„ tested and found alright022
„ „ defective044
Houses cleansed9211
Sinks properly disconnected from drains505
Water supplies provided to closets246
Yards paved202
Ashpits provided044

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Signed
T. J. SMITH.
G. F. BURGE.
T. G. LIVERMORE.