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London County Council 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: COUNTY OF LONDON. Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1927.

COUNTY OF LONDON. Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1927.

Sanitary Authority.Cowsheds.Slaughterhouses.Offensive Trades.Observations.Smoke nuisances.Notices.Common lodging houses.Cleansing of persons and rooms.Water supply.Milk-shops.Ice cream premises.Restaurants and Eating Houses.
No. licensed.No. of inspections.No. licensed.No. of inspections.No. authorised.No. of inspections.Intimations.Complaints.Houses licensed.Authorised lodgers.Persons.Rooms or premisesTenement houses extra supply.No. on register.No. of inspections.No. on register.No. ol inspections.No. of places.No. of inspections.
Adults.Children.After infectious diseases.For vermin.
City of London------135211-1455401,008Always--27128443418411,596
Batteraea--22883411711-32012524,3641,9741712013149214957499329
Bermondsey----14553076531,197141-1,698444-200662114207119501
Bethnal Green115421049116146-1639536-1,263365-253772170361187580
Camberwell112218510251511518-5438283,4762,987239-4501,095361497174204
Chelsea--262--17-6-2172-1,023293131-758828317676
Deptford--2786243335-61,154--1,359151-1792941872505275
Finsbury--175372524163247019569153316017899122203234
Fulham--2191--340-7-28711-1,2125813511392247191112225
Greenwich143373431335-29068759431211231321581515959
Hackney561155261933574202214313582,7642,60447613661,382263412157215
Hammersmith--75912301292916212921182,6558292839861,530171205130510
Hampstead--148--1-----41,063-262662163718667145
Holborn--17--24128-1394893-4844621299842311255437
Islington1101371019642321060-23830125,0353,089255554090023878440430
Kensington--52821-48637—73621713,90591540798146653163114--
Lambeth269162448747474-3477--7,2554641044902,940168504198396
Lewisham3248566--24-------1,42546-137350--114243
Paddington1123206165378-13-316511--110-101425127200112302
Poplar435717725192640764981101,3021,811200-2683561172723131,753
St. Marylebone12618436624677-47563,4352,72461445413109340118192286947
St. Pancras--513214825532422781,3225,5401,09582216209774327290380456
Shoreditch22112621373--4284--1,0492510281,315126256190689
Southwark--4884842 .31222,3221,0673,4435,634627273481,8781392783461,384
Stepney2265115314017636308243,351455-2,20786-4091,574252447392579
Stoke Newington11465--826---11,581351110-615426633136
Wandsworth112744671709626233169260-3,270552-2451,0224512782671,135
Westminster------2,0572979-61,7453511,0698945722507636148121450930
Woolwich9239725--155---10365542,23196443-93677136359140858
Total655831154,9621711,0405,9763195233316517,5148,05914,06346,9105,4887766,28921,3564,6376,8916,29015,344

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Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nii return.
Common lodging houses licensed by the Council (i.e., excluding those in the City of London) number, 164; lodgers, 17,059; visits—day, 7,469, night, 287
prosecutions, nil.
Seamen's lodging houses, licensed number, 31 ; Poplar, 6 ; Stepney, 25; lodgers, 1,061. Visits—day, 750; night, 45; prosecutions, 6 ; penalties and
costs, £46 5s. 0d.
Prosecutions—Water Supply : Hammersmith, 1. Kensington, 1. St. Marylebone, 1 ; St. Pancras, 3 ; Milk shops : Fulham, 8 ; St. Pancras, 17; Southwark. 4.
Ice Cream Premises : Hackney, 2.