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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
London County Council 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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TABLE II.
COUNTY OF LONDON.
Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1916.
| Sanitary Authority. | Cowsheds. | Slaughterhouses. | ! Offensive | Trades. | Smoke nuisances. | Underground rooms. | Overcrowding | Ilousing of the Working Classes Acts. | Houses let in lodgings. | Common lodging houses. | Cleansing of persons and rooms. | Water supply | Milk-shops. | Ice cream premises. | Other food places. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| No. licensed. | No. of inspections. | No. licensed | No. of inspections. | No. licensed. | No. of Inspections. | Observations. | Complaints. | Notices. | No. illegally occupied. | No. closed or other- wisp romodied. | Instances found. | No. remedied. | Houses inspected. | Representations made. | Closing orders. | Itemed ied without closing orders. | No. on register. | No. of inspections. | Prosecutions. | Houses licensed, i | Authorised lodgers. | Adults. | Children. | Premises or rooms | Tenement houses extra supply. | No. on register. | No. of inspections. | No. on register. | No. of inspections. | No. of places. | No. of inspections. | |
| City of London | – | – | * | * | – | – | 218 | 18 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 112 | – | – | – | 197 | 1,554 | – | 1 | 455 | 2 | 46 | 12 | – | – | – | 163 | 201 | ‡1093 | ‡642 |
| Battersea | 2 | 4 | 3 | 436 | 3 | 4 | 115 | 5 | – | 26 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 2,661 | – | – | – | 82 | 82 | – | 2 | 147 | 475 | 1,773 | 59 | 90 | 146 | 550 | 194 | 338 | 168 | 499 |
| Bermondsey | – | – | 1 | 56 | 13 | 115 | 26 | 16 | 16 | – | – | 8 | 8 | 490 | – | – | – | 223 | 361 | – | 4 | 1,196 | 22 | 864 | 1,630 | 1 | 286 | 683 | 102 | 80 | 1,005 | 5,546 |
| Bethnal Green | 12 | 63 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 60 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 141 | 141 | 230 | 31 | 16 | – | 254 | 985 | – | 9 | 453 | 17 | – | 5,001 | – | 254 | 985 | 108 | 254 | 323 | 1,595 |
| Camberwell | 7 | 118 | 7 | 104 | 2 | 7 | 64 | 5 | 14 | – | – | 51 | 51 | – | – | – | – | 292 | 341 | – | 5 | 466 | 54 | 2,110 | 101 | – | 560 | 1,340 | 276 | 421 | 188 | 376 |
| Chelsea | – | – | 3 | 25 | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | 236 | 42 | 96 | 722 | – | 105 | 145 | 30 | 36 | 102 | 145 |
| Deptford | – | 2 | 2 | 55 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 16 | 16 | 1,784 | 2 | 2 | – | 289 | 578 | – | 8 | 1,231 | – | 1,604 | 925 | – | 253 | 408 | 138 | 184 | 121 | 95 |
| Finsbury | 2 | 8 | 2 | 78 | 1 | 10 | 38 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 24 | 75 | – | – | – | 1,073 | 5,203 | – | 5 | 368 | 18 | – | 786 | 1 | 180 | 216 | 66 | 88 | 257 | 333 |
| Fulham | – | – | 2 | 66 | – | – | – | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 46 | 92 | – | – | 92 | – | – | – | 2 | 98 | 2 | 66 | 185 | 25 | 104 | 432 | 79 | 203 | – | 780 |
| Greenwich | 3 | 12 | 5 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | 20 | 20 | – | – | – | – | 247 | 148 | – | 3 | 121 | – | 431 | 112 | – | 139 | 117 | 104 | 66 | 46 | 1 |
| Hackney | 13 | 190 | 19 | 293 | 1 | 12 | 28 | 36 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 450 | 53 | 1,234 | – | – | 280 | 1,696 | – | – | – | – |
| Hammersmith | – | – | 7 | 224 | – | – | 61 | 17 | 7 | – | – | 25 | 25 | 19 | – | 12 | 7 | 2,707 | 709 | – | 4 | 430 | – | – | 984 | 2 | 306 | 305 | 232 | 30 | – | 1,771 |
| Hampstead | – | – | 4 | 61 | – | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | – | 405 | 705 | 6 | – | – | 4 | 201 | 33 | 63 | 95 | 256 | 72 | 164 | 476 | 1,007 |
| Holborn | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 20 | – | 6 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 14 | – | – | – | – | 627 | 907 | – | 19 | 1,320 | 47 | – | 75 | – | 163 | 263 | 58 | 47 | – | 1,832 |
| Islington | 4 | 42 | 24 | 1,332 | 7 | 114 | 55 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 22 | 22 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 30 | 1,222 | 5 | 3,308 | 72 | 26 | 582 | 1,117 | 235 | 33 | 524 | 13,890 |
| Kensington | 1 | 50 | 8 | 373 | – | – | 604 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 1,723 | – | – | – | 2,064 | 7,337 | 1 | 13 | 625 | 155 | 1,468 | 347 | 18 | 190 | 1,220 | 188 | 179 | 715 | 1,239 |
| Lambeth | 6 | 14 | 15 | 192 | 3 | 36 | – | – | 33 | 38 | 38 | 58 | 58 | – | – | – | – | 372 | 4,464 | – | 5 | 645 | – | – | 897 | 8 | 252 | 1,512 | – | – | – | – |
| Lewisham | 10 | – | 11 | 167 | – | – | 15 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 6 | 6 | – | – | 4 | – | 8 | 23 | – | 1 | 30 | – | – | 11 | – | 145 | 363 | – | 2 | 62 | 156 |
| Paddington | 1 | 4 | 5 | 261 | – | 114 | 203 | 21 | – | – | – | 80 | 68 | 99 | 1 | 1 | – | 1,404 | 6,513 | 4 | 5 | 221 | – | – | 117 | – | 113 | 160 | 72 | 80 | 331 | 982 |
| Poplar | 10 | 38 | 12 | 97 | 6 | 32 | 17 | – | – | – | – | 127 | 127 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1,214 | 5,538 | – | 7 | 994 | 158 | 2,824 | 2,305 | – | 293 | 871 | 93 | 140 | 273 | 1,082 |
| St. Marylebone | 5 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 685 | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | 17 | 17 | – | – | – | 1 | 1,167 | 2,026 | – | 10 | 1,102 | 3,077 | 2,193 | 734 | 15 | 201 | 75 | 117 | 6 | 695 | 695 |
| St. Pancras | 5 | 64 | 12 | 226 | 2 | 59 | 69 | 16 | 4 | 28 | 28 | 39 | 39 | 1,042 | 15 | 9 | 1,027 | 2,364 | 4,389 | – | 5 | 504 | 400 | 4,277 | 1,041 | 13 | 242 | 581 | 284 | 145 | – | 4,530 |
| Shoreditch | 3 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | – | 4 | 6 | 6 | 160 | 160 | 1,226 | – | – | – | 283 | 754 | – | 8 | 507 | – | – | 272 | 3 | 283 | 754 | 61 | 67 | 258 | 636 |
| Southwark | 3 | 36 | 5 | 59 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 7 | – | – | 207 | 207 | – | – | – | – | 1,282 | 2,415 | 22 | 28 | 3,228 | 73 | 2,710 | 12882 | 14 | 527 | 1,399 | 202 | 18 | 296 | 865 |
| Stepney | 30 | 52 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 26 | 58 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 30 | 237 | 237 | – | – | 34 | – | 761 | 1,172 | – | 37 | 5,971 | 267 | – | 1,274 | 5 | 477 | 1,838 | 144 | 305 | 409 | 1,286 |
| Stoke Newington | 1 | 21 | 4 | 14 | – | – | 60 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 384 | – | – | – | 259 | 259 | – | 1 | 37 | 5 | 272 | 100 | – | 65 | 130 | 19 | 38 | – | 380 |
| Wandsworth | 11 | 61 | 13 | 242 | 5 | 22 | 41 | 7 | 2 | – | – | 45 | 45 | – | – | – | – | 292 | 1,241 | – | 6 | 185 | 16 | 2 | 227 | – | 405 | 755 | 343 | 466 | 224 | 264 |
| Westminster | 1 | 26 | – | – | – | – | 1,728 | 27 | 53 | 15 | 15 | 53 | 53 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1,230 | 3,136 | – | 7 | 2,003 | 56 | 642 | 189 | 31 | 452 | 1,122 | 150 | 293 | 2,300 | 4,026 |
| Woolwich | 15 | 51 | 9 | 36 | – | – | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 111 | 111 | 5,736 | 6| | 4 | 1 | 430 | 553 | – | 18 | 518 | 59 | 1,065 | 213 | 2 | 96 | 103 | 46 | 102 | 64 | 141 |
Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses: Licensed number, 252; lodgers, 24,308; visits-day, 21,190, night, 1,028; convictions, 1; penalties, 15s.
Seamen's lodging houses: Licensed number, 11 in Poplar, 408 lodgers; 34 in Stepney, 829 lodgers; visits-day, 1,422, night, 193; convictions, 17; penalties, £313.
Prosecutions: Milkshops—Bethnal Green, 5, Chelsea 3, Hammersmith, 1, St. Pancras, 1, Stepney, 1, Woolwich 2; overcrowding—Poplar, 1, Southwark, 2.
* Continuous supervision during the regular hours of slaughter. When slaughtering is required at other hours, the Slaughterhouse Bye-laws provide for notice being
given to the Medical Officer of Health in order that arrangements may be made for an Inspector to be present,
‡ In addition to these premises, there are Cold Stores, Butchers' Shop3 and the Central Meat Market, all of which are kept under constant supervision.
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