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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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21 DECEMBER, 1892.
(7) That proceedings be taken against the owners of the following
premises in case of their failing to comply with the
sanitary notices served by direction of your Committee—
Nos. 1, 10, Salmen Street; 32, 33, Alias Road; 62, 64,
Ocean Street; 23, 24, King John Street; 32 and 48,
Rutland Street.
That your Committee resolved to recommend—
(8) That Messrs. F. H. Lyon and J. Twaits be directed to
act as Inspectors under the Adulteration of Food, &c., Acts.
(9) That your Committee beg to report that a summons was
taken out against the owner of No. 116, Duckett Street for
non-performance of sanitary works ordered by your Board,
with the result:
That the Magistrate made Order for the execution of the
works within 14 days, with costs.
(10) That your Sanitary Inspectors reported that since the last meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:
| Districts. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | ||
| Houses, &c., inspected | 90 | 123 | 107 | 320 |
| „ reinspected | 102 | 138 | 110 | 350 |
| Workshops inspected and measured | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| „ re-inspected | 0 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Notices served for sanitary amendments | 73 | 68 | 150 | 291 |
| Notices served re infectious diseases | 6 | 14 | 22 | 42 |
| Drains tested | 9 | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| „ found defective | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| „ cleansed and repaired | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| „ properly trapped | 16 | 68 | 59 | 143 |
| „ reconstructed | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Closets (new) provided | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| „ (additional) provided for workshops | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Closets ventilated | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Water-supplies provided to closets | 3 | 17 | 8 | 28 |
| „ for domestic purposes disconnected from those used for flushing closets | 0 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Waste-pipes of sinks disconnected from direct communication with drains | 20 | 28 | 13 | 61 |
| Rain-water-pipes ditto ditto | 0 | 18 | 7 | 25 |
| Houses cleansed | 8 | 38 | 5 | 51 |
| Workshop „ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cisterns | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |