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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15 MARCH, 1893.
(6) 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, viz.;
Xos. 42, Wilson Street; 19, Lyal Road; 18, Ely Terrace;
29, Spring Garden Place; 44, Shandy Street;
Greenfield Street; 48, Myrdle Street; 1, 2, Exmouth
Street; 54, 69, Old Church Road; and 45, Rectory
Square.
That Mr. Cox, your Inspector under the Adulteration of
Food, &c., Acts, submitted two certificates of your Analyst
as follows:
No. 289.—Certifying that a sample of Milk was admixed
with about 12 per cent. of added water.
No. 285—Certifying that a sample of Butter was not
Butter, but Margarine.
and Mr. Twaits, Inspector, submitted certificate as follows:
No. 4.—Certifying that a sample of Mustard was admixed
with about 20 per cent. of wheat flour and
coloured with turmeric.
and your Committee resolved to recommend—
(7) That proceedings be taken against the person who sold to
your Inspector under the Adulteration of Food, &c., Acts, the
sample of Milk admixed with about 12 per cent. of added
water.
(8) That the persons who sold to your Inspectors:
(a) A sample of Margarine for Butter;
(b) A sample of Mustard admixed with about 20 per
cent. of wheat flour and coloured with turmeric;
be respectively cautioned.
(9) That your Committee considered a letter from the London
Reform Union, drawing attention to the urinal accommodation
at the entrance to Rectory Square, and resolved to recommend
—That the London Reform Union be informed that in the
opinion of the Vestry it is not necessary to provide further
Urinal accommodation at Rectory Square.
(10) That your Committee resolved to recommend-
That the arrangements made in 1888, allowing the Relieving
Officers 4/- per case for removal of non-pauper cases of
infectious disease to Hospital, be continued.
(11) That your Surveyor submitted and your Committee considered
and approved an Estimate tor the Halt-year ending
Michaelmas Day next as follows, and which your Committee
recommend for adoption by your Board: