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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

Hampstead 1915

Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE V. (This table was 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.)

TABLE V. (This table was 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 on register at end of 1914.Number added in 1915.Number removed in 1915.On regis-ter at end of 1915.Number of inspections 1915.Number of prosecu-tions, 1915,
Cowsheds------
Milkshops98--98267-
Houses let in lodgings405--405920-
Ice cream premises83-281137-

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Slaughter.houses.—Number of inspections, 52; notices, 2.
Offensive Trades.—Number of inspections, nil; notices, nil.
Smoke Nuisances.—Number of observations, 14; nuisances and
complaints, 8; notices, 2; summonses, nil.
Housing of the Working Classes.—Number of houses inspected,
27; dealt with under section 15 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1909, nil; representations, 3; closing orders, 3; houses remedied
without closing orders, 23; remedied after closing orders, 2; houses
demolished, nil; in respect of which closing orders had been made,
empty at end of year, nil.
Underground Rooms.—Number illegally occupied, 26; closed
or illegal occupation discontinued, 15; where necessary works completed
or in hand, 11.
Overcrowding.—Number of rooms overcrowded, 8; remedied, 8;
prosecutions, nil.
Cleansing.—Number of adults cleansed, 2; children cleansed,
536; rooms cleansed, 38; premises cleansed, 20.
Water Supply to Tenement Houses.—Number of premises
supplied, 89; prosecutions, nil.
Inland Revenue Act (applications for certificates).—Number of
houses, 24; tenements included therein, 48; applications granted,
14—houses comprising 14 dwellings: refused, nil; deferred or
withdrawn, 17.
Sale of Food,—Number of premises used, other than ice.cream
premises, milkshops and cowsheds, 54 ; inspections, 288.
Disinfection Shelter.—Number of persons accommodated, nil.
Mortuary.—Number of bodies received, 103; infectious
bodies, 3.