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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

Chelsea 1914

Annual report for 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: PROCEEDINGS DURING 1914.

PROCEEDINGS DURING 1914.

PREMISES.NUMBER OF PLACES.Number of inspections, 1914.Number of Notices, 1914.Number of prosecutions, 1914.
On register at end of 1913.Added in 1914.Removed in 1914.On regi-ster at end of 1914.
Milk premises105119107150171
Cowsheds1—106——
Slaughter-houses5—1436——
Other offensive trade premises———————
Ice cream premises270027320—
Registered houses let in lodgings—————{(a)* —{(a)*
{(b)* —{(b)*
Bakehouses330132546—
Restaurant Kitchens690465912—

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* (a) For overcrowding. * (b) For other conditions.
Total number of Intimation Notices served for all purposes 768
Overcrowding, 1914 :—
Number of dwellings rooms overcrowded 7
Number remedied 7
Number of prosecutions —
Underground Rooms :—
Illegal occupation dealt with during the year 1
Number of rooms closed 1
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 265
Shelters provided under Sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891:—
Number of persons accommodated during the year 49
Revenue Acts ::—
Number of Houses for which applications were received
during the year 5
Number of tenements comprised therein 385
Number of tenements for which certificates were
(a.) granted 385
„ „ (b.) refused —
„ „ (c.) deferred —
Common Lodging-houses—certificates granted
Mortuaries :—
Total number of bodies removed 185
Total number of infectious bodies removed —