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Battersea 1923

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923

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Sanitary Circumstances.
Summary Table 65
Legal Proceedings 66 70
Common Lodging Houses 70
Drainage Work 70
Revenue Act. 1903 71
Licensed Premises Urinals 71
Smoke and Effluvium Nuisances 71
Water Supply 71
Van Dwellings 72
Hag Flock Act 72
Rats and Mice Destruction Act 72
Personal Cleansing Station 73 76
Disinfecting Department 76
Mortuary 76
Staff 77
Protection of the Food Supply.
Unsound Food 78
Butchers' Shops 78
Cow-Houses and Slaughter-Houses 78
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 79 81
Analysts' Reports 81 91
Milk and Cream Regulations 91
Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, and Food Control Order 92
Milk—Special Designations Order 92
Condensed and Dried Milk Regulations 93
Ice Cream 94
Milk Shops 94
Fish Shops 94
Restaurant Kitchens 95
Street Stalls 95
Factories. Workshops, &c.—General Tables 96
Factories 97
Workshops 98
Outworkers 99, 102
Bakehouses 101
Warehouses and Wharves 101
Housing.
General 103
Overcrowding 103
New Tenements and Houses erected 104, 105
Chatham House 104
Repair of Unfit Houses 105 107
Closing Order 108
Underground Rooms 108
Increase of Rent, &c., Act 108
Housing, &c., Act, 1919—Sec. 28 111
Sec. 29 108
Insanitary Areas (Plough Road Area) 109
Houses 111
Houses Let in Lodgings—By-laws 111
Statistics 113
Appendices.
Table I. Summary of Vital Statistics 116
,, II. Infectious Disease Notifications 117
,, III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death 118
„ IV. Infant Mortality 119 122