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The slaughter-houses (4), bake-houses (26), cowshed (1), and
dairies (65), the registered houses let in lodgings (259), situated in
the Borough, were all inspected during the year. The Common
Lodging House was closed in the previous year (1918).
FOOD INSPECTION.
During the year many systematic efforts were made to detect
the sale of diseased meat within the Borough, and I am glad to say
that, with few exceptions, our inspections have not called for any
seizures. 3 tons and 14 cwts. of unsound food was voluntarily
surrendered during the year. Premises where food is prepared and
stored have been kept under supervision.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
By the end of the year 1919, 259 such premises were on the
Register, but these will be greatly increased as the result of the
greater number of house-to-house inspections which can now be
undertaken.
HOUSING.
No material industrial development of Stoke Newington is
likely, and the demand for houses will continue to come from those
who are industrially employed elsewhere. But there is an urgent
need of more dwellings in Stoke Newington in order to reduce
the excessive occupation of many existing ones.
Of the dwelling houses in the Borough (8,028), 3,978 are of a
working class rental and type. Although the average annual increase
of population for the five years before the War was about 8 per thousand
no new working class dwellings have been erected for some ten
years. About 6,000 of the houses are at present tenemented and,
(specially in the South Hornsey Ward, there are many tenements
with more than two occupants per room. Many up-to-date facts as
to the circumstances of occupancy of these houses are being ascertained
by the house-to-house inspection, which it has been possible
to extend in recent months.