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Southwark 1894

Annual report for 1894 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1894.
In 1894 the sum in fees paid to medical practitioners for notifying infectious cases
in St. George's amounted to £61 Os. Od.
This amount, paid in the first instance by your Vestry, is recouped by the Asylums
Board and charged to the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund. 44 per cent, of the
total number of cases notified in the parish during 1894 were removed to the Asylums
Board and other hospitals. During 1892, 67 per cent., and in 1893, 34 per cent, of
such cases were treated in these institutions.
The decrease of admissions during 1893 and 1894 was due to the overcrowded
state of the hospitals. My experience of the past year shows that there is urgent
need for further hospital accommodation for infectious cases.
It is important to bear in mind that prompt isolation alone can obviate the danger
resulting from the detention of infectious patients in so poor and densely packed a
district as St. George's.

List of Slaughter-houses licensed by the London County Council, in October, 1894.

Name.Situation.
Farmer, John264, Old Kent Road
Kedman, Frederick146, High Street, Borough
Rowe, John73, London Road
Trask, William S.11, Bermondsey New Road
Waters, Arthur William59, Old Kent Road
Waters, Frederick S.79, Old Kent Road

The Slaughter-houses regularly inspected have been found to be conducted in a
satisfactory manner.
In the interests of the public, however, private slaughter-houses should be
speedily replaced by "Abattoirs." This change would alone enable a systematic and
thorough inspection of meat to be made as at present practised in the large towns of
Germany, France, and Belgium.

List of Horse Knackert' Yards licensed by the London County Council in

October, 1894.

Name.Situation.
Harrison, Barber & Co., Limited23, Green Street
Harrison, Barber & Co., LimitedWescott Street, Tabard Street

During 1894, 6,537 horses were received at the above-mentioned knackers' yards
and disposed of as cat's meat.