Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE V.
INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
PREMISES. | Number in Borough at end of 1926. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Prosecutions. |
---|---|---|---|
Cowsheds | ... | ... | ... |
Milkshops | 124 | 157 | |
Registered houses let in lodgings | 577 | 871 | 4 |
Ice cream premises | 61 | 185 | ... |
Slaughter-houses | 1 | 6 | ... |
Offensive Trades | ... | ... | ... |
Restaurants and Eating Houses | 235 | 198 | ... |
Housing op the Working Classes— Number of houses inspected:—
(a) On account of complaints or illness (Public Health Act) | 982 |
(6) House to house (Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925) | |
Number of notices served : — | |
(i.) Intimation | 543 |
(ii.) Statutory | 76 |
(b) Under Housing Act | 0 |
Number of houses repaired or nuisances remedied under Public Health Act Number of houses repaired under Section 3 of Housing Act :— | 513 |
0 | |
0 | |
Number of houses closed on notice by owner that they could not be made fit Number of houses for the working classes :— | 0 |
(a) Erected during year | 0 |
(b) In course of erection | 1 block (15 tenements) |
Number of representations by Medical Officer or other person | 0 |
Number of houses included in such representations | 0 |
Number of Closing Orders made | 0 |
Number of Closing Orders determined (i.e., houses made fit) | 0 |
Number of Demolition Orders | 0 |
Number of houses demolished:— | |
(a) In pursuance of Orders | 0 |
0* | |
Total number of houses in the borough | 3473 (Census, 1921) |
Number of houses occupied by the working classes | 8571 tenements (Census, 1921) |
Underground Rooms— | |
Number illegally occupied, notices served | 2 |
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued | 2 |
Overcrowding | |
Number of cases of overcrowding found; notices served | 4 |
Number of prosecutions | 1 |
Number remedied | 4 |
Smoke Nuisances— | |
Number of observations | 340 |
Number of notices | 6 |
Number of complaints | 7 |
Number of summonses | 0 |
Cleansing and Disinfection— | |
Number of adults cleansed | 164 |
Number of children cleansed | 0 |
Number of premises disinfected : — | |
223 | |
134 | |
Water Supply to Tenement Houses— | |
Number of premises supplied | 6 |
Nu nber of prosecutions | 0 |
Sanitary officers | |
Nuviber of Sanitary Inspectors (whole-time) Male 3 Female | 0 |
Number of Sanitary Inspectors (part-time) Male 0 Female | 1 |
Number of Health Visitors whole-time 1 part-time | 1 |
* Three houses demolished by Local Authority for rebuilding as working-class tenement.