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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 1920
Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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| Illegal use of underground rooms for sleeping discontinued | — |
| Other Improvements, or Nuisances abated | 862 |
| Rooms disinfected | — |
| Total Improvements | 2,605 |
| Total Premises Improved | 703 |
STATE OF PAUPERISM IN THE BOROUGH.
During the year their was an increase in Pauperism, for the number
of paupers relieved weekly averaged 5,620, as contrasted with 4,872 in 1919
and 5,078 in 1918.
Appended is a statement furnished by the Clerk to the Islington
Guardians
| Quarters. | Average number Relieved during each week. | Borough Death rales, 1920. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor Paupers, Adults and Children. | Outdoor Paupers. | Totals. | Totals coriespond-ing periods 1919. | Vagrants Relieved. | Children Boarded out. | |||
| Adults. | Children under 16. | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 1st Qr. | 2,751 | 1,362 | 1,098 | 5,211 | 4,960 | No Wards. | 55 | 17.36 |
| 2nd ,, | 2,772 | 1,360 | 1,119 | 5,251 | 4,803 | 52 | 13.16 | |
| 3rd „ | 2,694 | 1,375 | 1,123 | 5,192 | 4.779 | 56 | 9.63 | |
| 4th ,, | 2,791 | 2,111 | 1,923 | 6,825 | 4,947 | 55 | 13.13 | |
| The Year | 2,752 | 1,552 | 1,316 | 5,620 | 4,872 | — | 54 | 13.32 |
INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION OF FOOD AND PLACES
WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED.
Food—Inspection of.—Inspector Wilkinson reports that during the
year he has paid 810 visits to the 18 Slaughter Houses now on the register,
including one Horse Slaughter House, and that he has ascertained that
9,947 animals were killed therein, namely:—1,344 oxen and cows, 54 calves
7,562 sheep and lambs, 132 pigs and 855 horses for human consumption,
chiefly for export. These were mostly found of good quality and free from
disease, the few exceptions set out in the table on page 55.