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Hampstead 1903
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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was made, in view of the approach of the licensing session, by the
Public Health Committee, who decided not to oppose any of the licenses,
but in one instance took exception to the storage of harness, sacks, shop
blinds, and a tricycle in the slaughter-house, which the occupier
undertook to remove.
Table of inspections and work carried out:—
| Slaughter house inspections | 175 |
| Slaughter houses white and lime washed | 20 |
| Brine rooms lime washed | 2 |
| Lumber removed from slaughter house | 2 |
| Paving repaired | 2 |
| Water closets cleansed | 2 |
| Walls and ceilings repaired | 2 |
| Defective drain trap amended | 1 |
The following is a list of the existing Slaughter houses in the
Borough:—40, Englands Lane; 17, High Street; 69, High Street;
242, Belsize Road (in rear of); 6, Fairfax Mews.
Cow houses.
There has been no licensed cow-house in the Borough since the
year 1898.
Common Lodging Houses.
The only remaining common lodging house in the Borough, viz.,
"Holly Mount Cottage," Holly Mount, which was registered to accommodate
35 men, was closed on the 25th June, 1903, the keeper having
decided not to apply for a licence under the provisions of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, which requires these placcs
to be licensed annually. Hampstead is now the only Metropolitan
Borough which has no common lodging house within its boundaries.
Tenement Houses.
The effect of the decision in the King's Bench Court in the case of
Weatheritt v. Cantlay had been such that considerable doubt existed as
to how far the Bye-laws made under section 94 of the Public Health
(London) Act applied to an ordinary tenement house. These doubts