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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
Finsbury 1903
Report on the public health of 1903
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SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE PUBLIC
HEALTH & FACTORY & WORKSHOP ACTS.
[The following Tables hare been drawn up in accordance with
suggestions received from the Medical Officer of Health of the
Administrative County of London in order to facilitate uniformity
in stating returns for the various Metropolitan Boroughs. The
forms were not received in time for their incorporation in the body
of the report.— G. N. ]
Proceedings during 1903.
| Premises. | Number of Places— | Number of inspections. 1903. | Number of notices, 1903. | Number of prosecutions, 1903. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1902. | Added in 1903. | Removed in 1903. | On register at end of 1903. | ||||
| Milk premises | 280 | 17 | 36 | 261 | 400 | 116 | — |
| Cowsheds | 7 | — | — | 7 | 184 | 12 | — |
| Slaughter-houses | 6 | — | 1 | 5 | 100 | — | — |
| Other offensive trade premises | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ice cream premises | 94 | 7 | — | 101 | 700 | 43 | — |
| Registered houses let in lodgings | 324 | 770 | 15 | 1079 | 4316 | (a)* 98 (b)*622 | (a)* 7 (b)* 22 |
| (a)* For overcrowding. | (b)* For other conditions. | ||||||
Overcrowding, 1903.
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded 236
Number remedied 236
Number of notices issued 236
Number of prosecutions 7
Underground rooms.
Number closed during year 27
Insanitary houses.
Number closed under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 —
Shelters provided under sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
Number of persons accommodated during the year 26
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts.
Number of houses for which applications were
received during year 5
Number of dwellings comprised therein 60
Number of certificates granted 5