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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
Battersea 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903
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Proceedings during 1903. (The tables on pages 170-174 are suggested by the Medical Officer of Health to the County of London in order to secure uniformity of tabulation in the annual reports of the Medical Officers of Health of the Metropolitan Boroughs).
| Premises. | Number of Places. | Number of inspections, 1903. | Number of Intimation notices, 1903. | Number of prosecutions, 1903. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On register at end of 1903. | ||||
| Milk premises | 213 | 33 | 21 | 225 | These premises are subject frequent inspection. | 20 | Nil. |
| Cowsheds | 3 | – | – | 3 | – | ||
| Slaughter-houses | 8 | – | 1 | 7 | – | ||
| Other offensive trade premises | 3 | – | – | 3 | – | ||
| Ice-cream premises | 80 | 39 | 4 | 115 | 12 | ||
| Registered houses let in lodgings | 82 | 39 | – | 121 | (a)*- | ||
(a)* For overcrowding. (b)* For other conditions.
Overcrowding.
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded 77
Number remedied 77
Number of notices issued 13
Number of prosecutions —
Underground Rooms.
Number closed during year 55
Insanitary Houses.
Number closed under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891 —
Shelters provided under sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health London
Act, 1891.
A shelter is in course of erection.