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Mile End 1892

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

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27 APRIL, 1892.
Moved by Mr. Hirst seconded by Mr. Loftus and resolved
—That the Report be received.
Moved by Mr. Hirst seconded by Mr. Loftus and resolved
—That the Report be adopted and it was resolved accordingly.
X. The Report of Committee No. 3 was brought up as follows:
To the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.
Report of Committee No. 3.
For Drainage, Sewerage and Nuisances.
Wednesday, 27th April, 1892.
Your Committee beg to report that they met on Friday,
the 22nd day of April, inst., there being present Messrs.
T. J. Smith, Burge, Birks, Schweitzer, Livermore, and
Seigenberg.
(1) That your Surveyor and Medical Officer of Health brought
up and read Reports for which your Committee beg to refer
your Board to their Report Books.
That your Medical Officer reported as follows:
"During the two weeks ending April 9th the number
of Births was 131: the number of Deaths from all
"causes was 104; 64 occurring in the Eastern district, 23
"occurring in the Western district, and 17 in the outlying
"Institutions belonging to this Hamlet, giving a death"rate
equal to 25.1 per 1,000 per annum: that of the
"Metropolis being 21.8 for the same period."
and your Committee recommend—That the same be received.
(2) That your Sanitary Inspector brought up and read a
Report for which your Committee beg to refer your Board
to his Report Book.
That having regard to such Report your Committee resolved
to recommend—That notices requiring the abatement of the
following nuisances existing at the under-mentioned premises,
respectively, be served by your Sanitary Inspector pursuant
to the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:
(a) Nos. 6, 8, 9, 13, 30, Greenfield Street; and 61, Knott
Street—
Yard gullies thereat not trapped.
(b) Nos. 37, Wellesley Street; 33, 35, 50, 51, 62, 63, 85
to 87, Greenfield Street; 378, 380, Commercial Road;
128, Oxford Street; 33, 55, 6, 28, 30, 66, and 68,
Knott Street—
Closets thereat without water supply.