[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse].
- Limehouse (London, England). Board of Works
- Date:
- [1891?]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives
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![accepted the suggestion and I wrote to the Council accordingly, hut the request was not complied with. On the same day (25th June), a letter from the Council was laid before the Board to the effect that directions had been given for a general inspection to be made of the air shafts, with a view of devising some means of remedying the cause of the complaints, and that meanwhile deodorants would be freely used. On the 10th September, I reported that the County Council had stopped up the sewer ventilator in Turner's Road, and carried a 6in. x 6in. pipe up the front of the house No. 50, Turner's Road, in lieu thereof; and on the 24th September, in consequence of com plaints still being made, the Council was asked to put up another ventilating pipe in Turner's Road, opposite that already fixed. This request was repeated on the 5th November, and on the 18th March a letter was read from the Council, stating that two additional ven tilators had been fixed, one in Turner's Road, and the other at the end of Burdett Road, and that it was believed that the evils com plained of would thus be remedied. In the course of the year several letters of complaint were] received as to the intolerable nuisance caused by the escape of noxious gases from the ventilating grates, and copies thereof were forwarded to the County Council; and on the 8th October, the Medical Officer reported that the nuisance was a serious state of things for the inhabitants of the locality, and one which could not but affect adversely their health, and it was resolved that a copy of such report should be furnished to the Council with a request that the subject matter thereof might receive attention. MAINTENANCE OF DISTURNPIKED ROADS. In my last Annual Report I referred to this subject, and stated that the Board had decided to inform the London County Council that in the opinion of the Board the sum offered by the Council towards the cost of maintenance of Main Roads in tho year 1889-00, namely £487, was inadequate, and that the Board therefore declined to accept it, and called upon the Council to undertake the repair and maintenance of the roads as from the 31st March, 1890. In reply](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19955017_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
