London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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| Number of Orders for repairs issued under section 28 of the Housing Act, 1919 | ||
| Number of houses repaired by local authorities | Nil | |
| Number of houses closed on notice by owner that they could not | ||
| be made fit | 13 | |
| Total number of houses in the borough | 39,938 | |
| Number of houses for the working classes— | ||
| 47 | ||
| 325 | ||
| Number of houses occupied by the working classes | Fully two-thirds of the dwelling houses in the borough. | |
| Number of observations | ||
| Number of notices | ||
| Number of nuisances and complaints | 63 | |
| Number of summonses | Nil | |
| Number illegally occupied | 3 | |
| Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued | 3 | |
| Number of rooms overcrowded | 7 | |
| Number remedied | 7 | |
| Prosecutions | Nil | |
| Number of adults cleansed | 27 | |
| Number of children cleansed | 5,405 | |
| Number of rooms or premises cleansed | 5,678 | |
| Premises supplied | ||
| Prosecutions | Nil | |
| Number of premises used other than ice cream premises, milk | ||
| shops and cowsheds | ||
| Number of inspections | 9,948 | |