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Battersea 1904

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904

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149
Number of Notices prohibiting homework in
unwholesome premises (s. 108) —
Number of Cases of infectious disease notified in
homeworkers' premises —
Number of Orders prohibiting homework in
infected premises (s. no) —
Number of Cases reported to H.M. Inspector:—
Failure to affix Abstract 69
Replies as to action taken in cases notified by
H.M. Inspector 6
Other matters 3
Number of underground bakehouses in use at
the end of 1904 33
Certificates granted during the year (s. 101) 4
Number of workshop rooms measured 133
Overcrowding, 1903.
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded 58
Number remedied 58
Number of prosecutions 1
Underground Rooms.
Illegal occupation dealt with during year 5
Number of rooms closed 5
Insanitary Houses.
Number closed under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 —
Number closed under the Housing of the Working
Classes Act —
Shelters provided under sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
Number of persons accommodated during the year —
Revenue Acts.
Number of houses for which applications were
received during the year 232
Number of tenements comprised therein 244
Number of tenements for which certificates were—
(a) granted 244
(b)refused —
(c) deferred —