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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3 AUGUST, 1892.
149
Insufficient surface drainage to yards thereat.
(qq) No. 179, Oxford Street—
Area paving thereat defective.
(rr) Nos. 7, 8, 16 to 18, Bermuda Street; 118, 138 to
142, Grafton Street; 2, 2a, 4 to 10, 16 to 20, 26, 34,
38, 42 to 54, 58, 60, 66, 82 to 86, 104 to 108, 134,
Duckett Street; 14, Floriston Street; 86, Jamaica
Street; 283, 304, "King's Arms," Mile End Road;
28, 68, 78, 82, 84, Wellesley Street; 67, 75, 79, 87 to
99, 103 to 107, 113, 123 to 129, 139, 143, 147, 165 to
169, 173, 179, 199 to 203, 209 to 213, 219, 225, 227,
23l, 237, 243, 247, 249, 255, 257, 269, 271, 277, 281,
287 to 293, 56, 58, 64, 68, 70, 74 to 80, 98, 108, 118,
126, 128, 132 to 136, 144, 162 to 170, 176, 188, 198,
200, 208 to 218, 222 to 230, 236, 240,248, 250,254,260,
272, 274, 284, 288, 292, 294, 306, 310 to 314, 322,
324, 332, Oxford Street; 395, 397, 559, Commercial
Road; 44, Hawkins Street; 45, 87, Heath Street;
181, Jubilee Street; 114, 116, Charles Street; 66,
Nelson Street; 60 to 66, Bedford Street; and 2a,
Mulberry Street—
No proper ashpits thereat.
(ss) Nos. 153 to 161, 273, 146, 316, and 320, Oxford
Street —
Ashpits thereat not properly covered.
(tt) No. 286, Oxford Street—
Stable thereat not properly drained.
(uu) No. 269, Oxford Street; and "Turner's Arms,"
Devonshire Street—
Urinals thereat without proper gullies.
(vv) No. 108, Oxford Street—
Offensive accumulation in area.
(ww) Railway Arch in rear of No. 187, Turner's Road—
Business or trade of a fish-skin curers carried on in such a
manner as to be injurious to health.
(3) That Notices requiring the execution of the following works
at the under-mentioned workshops, respectively, be served by
the Sanitary Inspector pursuant to the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891:
(xx) No. 134, Mile End Road—
Provide additional watercloset for the use of the females
employed thereat, and proper water-supply to the
present closet.
(yy) No. 64, Plumber's RowProperly
fix watercloset and provide proper water-supply to
such closet thereat,