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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

Islington 1909

Fifty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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1909]

Table: Table CXXXVIII. SUMMARY OF PROSECUTIONS.—During year 1909.

Table CXXXVIII. SUMMARY OF PROSECUTIONS.—During year 1909.

Total Prosecutions.Successful.Dismissed.Withdrawn.Amount of Penalties Received.
£s.d.
"Public Health (London) Act, 1891"32291291150
"Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-99"11010163427136
"Margarine Act, 1887"77......6180
"Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885".....................
"Metropolis Local Management Act".....................
"London County Council General Powers Acts"11......170
Total15013875527136

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WATER SUPPLY.
The following are the particulars as to the water supply of the district
receiving water from the New River, as abstracted from the last return of the
Metropolitan Water Board

Table: They are a continuation of those which have been given for some years past:—

They are a continuation of those which have been given for some years past:—

1907-81908-9.
Houses Supplied212,592214,737
Houses on constant system212,524214,669
Houses not on constant system5868
Percentage of houses on constant system99.999.9
Population supplied1,393,6681,405,126
Average daily supply (gallons)42,509,78943,333,418
Quantity of water supplied during the year (gals.)15,558,582,82315,816,697,652
Average daily supply per house (gals.)200.66202.58
„ „ „ head (gals.)30.5030.84
Average number of persons supplied per house6.586.57
Capacity of subsidence reservoirs468,100,000468,100,000
No. of days supply39510.80