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London County Council 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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reduce the amount of tuberculous milk supplied to London. The great need at the present time is,
however, the systematic veterinary inspection of cows by the local authorities of the areas in which the
dairy farms are situated, and the exclusion from the milk supply of the milk of cows suffering from
tubercular disease of the udder or showing clinical signs of tubercular disease or giving tuberculous
milk. In this connection it might be stated that provincial local authorities have generally shown
willingness to co-operate with the Council in preventing the sale of milk from cows which the Council's
veterinary inspector has certified to be suffering from tubercular disease of the udder, and in a few
instances veterinary inspectors have been appointed by the local authorities for the enforcement of
the provisions of the Dairies and Cowsheds Order of 1899. The adoption of this latter course by
certain authorities, which is an indirect effect of the administration of the Council's powers, is one of
the most hopeful results of the Council's Act of 1907.
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Offensive Businesses.
In the year 1908 the County Council received 281 applications for licences for slaughter-houses
and granted 273. The following table shows the number of applications received and the number of
slaughter-houses licensed in recent years. It will be seen that the number of these premises is continually
decreasing:-
| Year. | No. of applications received. | No. of premises for which licences were granted. | Year. | No. of applications received. | No. of premises for which licences were granted. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1892 | 543 | 537 | 1901 | 384 | 381 |
| 1893 | 538 | 529 | 1902 | 371 | 362 |
| 1894 | 518 | 506 | 1903 | 350 | 346 |
| 1895 | 497 | 485 | 1904 | 338 | 333 |
| 1896 | 478 | 470 | 1905 | 322 | 318 |
| 1897 | 460 | 460 | 1906 | 310 | 308 |
| 1898 | 442 | 429 | 1907 | 301 | 294 |
| 1899 | 419 | 411 | 1908 | 281 | 273 |
| 1900 | 405 | 393 |
The number of slaughter-houses in each of the London sanitary areas and the frequency with which these slaughter-houses, in some of the districts, were inspected are shown in the following table:—
| Sanitary area. | Number of slaughterhouses. | No. of inspections, 1908. | No. of notices, 1908. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed at end of 1907. | Licencelapsed or refused in 1908. | Remaining at end of 1908. | |||
| Paddington | 7 | - | 7 | 582 | - |
| Kensington | 12 | 1 | 11 | 227 | - |
| Hammersmith | 9 | - | 9 | 117 | 17 |
| Fulham | 4 | - | 4 | 50 | 1 |
| Chelsea | 6 | - | 6 | 126 | - |
| Westminster, City of | 1 | 1 | -- | ||
| St. Marylebone | 8 | - | 8 | 62 | 2 |
| Hampstead | 5 | - | 5 | 130 | - |
| St. Pancras | 19 | 1 | 18 | 606 | 1 |
| Islington | 37 | 3 | 34 | 2,008 | - |
| Stoke Newington | 7 | 2 | 5 | 110 | 3 |
| Hackney | 25 | 1 | 24 | 393 | 3 |
| Holborn | 1 | — | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Finsbury | 3 | - | 3 | - | |
| London, City of J | 7 | - | 7 | ||
| Shoreditch | 8 | 1 | 7 | 39 | 1 |
| Bethnal Green | 6 | 1 | 5 | 30 | — |
| Stepney | 10 | 3 | 7 | 33 | - |
| Poplar | 18 | 2 | 16 | 108 | 4 |
| Southwark | 6 | — | 6 | 78 | - |
| Bermondsey | 2 | -- | 2 | 31 | 1 |
| Lambeth | 24 | -- | 24 | ||
| Battersea | 5 | — | 5 | 8 | - |
| Wandsworth | 20 | 1 | 19 | 365 | 3 |
| Camberwell | 15 | 1 | 14 | 132 | — |
| Deptford | 4 | 1 | 3 | 49 | 1 |
| Greenwich | 5 | 1 | 4 | 53 | 4 |
| Lewisham | 16 | 1 | 15 | 126 | - |
| Woolwich | 11 | - | 11 | 56 | 4 |
The seven slaughter-houses in the City of London are not licensed by the London County Council.
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