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Lambeth 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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The net expenditure upon the maintenance of the Milk
Depot, during the year ending December 31st, 1913, is
stated by the Borough Accountant to have been £306
0s. 2d.
(a) Expenditure £891 0 8
(b) Income 585 0 6
i.e., Expenditure in excess
of Income £306 0 2
The net yearly expenditures since the Depot was opened
are: 1906, £233 12s. 6d.; 1907, £206 0s. 0d.; 1908, £233
16s. 7d.; 1909, £315 8s. 8d.; 1910, £294 5s. 3d.; 1911,
£214 18s. 10d.; 1912, £256 13s. 11d.; 1913, £306 0s. 2d.
The financial statistics must be considered with the good
derived by the infants and children fed.
BAKEHOUSES
There are, within the Borough, 214* Bakehouses (135
above ground and 79 underground), and these were inspected
officially during 1913, and the necessary annual whitewashing
and cleaning carried out, as required.
*72 were certified during 1903-4 as "suitable" for occupation as
underground bakehouses under section 101 Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901.