Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for 1908 of the Medical Officer of Health
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PROCEEDINGS DURING 1908.
PREMISES.
NUMBER OF PLACES.
Number
of inspections,
1908.
Number
of
Notices,
1908.
Number
of
prosecutions,
1908.
On register
at
end of
1907.
Added in
1908.
Removed
in 1908.
On register
at
end of
1908.
Milk premises
128
2
9
121
150
9
-
Cowsheds
2
-
—
2
42
—
-
Slaughter-houses
6
-
—
6
126
—
—
Other offensive trade
premises
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Ice cream premises
39
-
1
38
19
1
-
Registered houses let in
lodgings
597
-
8
589
192
(a)* 5
(a)*
(b)*136
(b)*
Bakehouses
39
-
1
38
57
6
-
Restaurant Kitchens
61
2
—
63
72
4
-
* (a) For overcrowding. *(b) For other conditions.
Total number of Intimation Notices served for all purposes 672
Overcrowding, 1908—
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded 24
Number remedied 24
Number of prosecutions -
Underground rooms—
Illegal occupation dealt with during the year 3
Number of rooms closed 3
Insanitary houses—
Number closed under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 —
Number closed under the Housing of the Working Classes Act —
Number of verminous rooms cleansed 236
Shelters provided under sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891—
Number of persons accommodated during the year 67
Revenue Acts—
Number of houses for which applications were received during
the year 11
Number of tenements comprised therein 48
Number of tenements for which certificates were (a) granted 14
„ „ „ „ „ (b) refused 34
„ „ „ „ „ (c) deferred —
Mortuaries—
Total number of bodies removed 162
Total number of infectious bodies removed 5