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Report of the Medical Officer of Health
B—Administration.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
The County Council received during the year 194 applications for cowhouse licences, of which
187 were granted. The number of applications for licences received during the last seventeen years
and the number granted are shown in the following table. It will be seen that the number of these
Cowshed
premises.
It will be seen that the number of these
premises in London is continually decreasing.

In 1903 effort was made, in conjunction with the medical officers of health of metropolitan
boroughs, to secure uniform statistical statement of the proceedings of the local authorities in London.
Tables showing these proceedings included in this report have therefore, in the main, been compiled
from tabular statements in the annual reports of medical officers of health, but in some cases it has
been necessary to use figures otherwise contained in their reports. The following table relating to
Inspection
of cowshed
premises.
The following table relating to
cowsheds has been thus prepared:—