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drainage with the chemical test.* Taking the ordinary notifiable
infectious diseases, out of the 1650 infected houses dealt with during
1919, the results are as follows, the averages being given in brackets
for the past 25 years, 1891—1915: —
(a) 60, i.e., 3.6 per cent, were found to have defective drains,
i.e., a result was obtained with the chemical test employed
(average = 14.3 per cent).
(b) 847, i.e., 51.3 per cent, showed defects in drains, traps,
fittings and appliances (average 53.1 per cent.).
(c) 803, i.e., 48.7 per cent, showed no defects (average = 46.9
per cent.).
Registration of Cow-houses, Slaughter-Houses, Common
Lodging-houses, and Milk Shops.
During 1919 the Cow-houses and Slaughter-houses,and Common
Lodging-houses licences were renewed by the London County
Council with the following exception:—
Common Lodging-house —89-91, Wandsworth Road.
Cow-houses —Elder Road Dairy and 93, Clive Road.
The applicants were registered by the Borough Council as milksellers
or purveyors of milk at the following premises, which were
passed as " suitable," i.e., in accordance with the Council's requirements:—
l2l, Acre Lane, 173, Coldharbour Lane, 45, Dorset
Road, 68, Landor Road, 45, Lowden Road, 8, Mawbey Street, 16,
Milkwood Road, 74, Shakespeare Road, 6, Tower Street, 115, Vauxhall
Street, 8, Windmill Row, and 10 Windmill Row (8 being simply
transfers of existing approved licences).
Revenue Act, 1903
(and Section 35 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909).
During 1919, 5 certificates were applied for in connection
with tenements (or dwellings) so constructed as to afford suitable
separate accommodation for each of the families inhabiting the
same, with the following results:—
1. Certificates granted unconditionally 2*
2. Certificates granted conditionally
3. Certificates refused 3†
* The above statistics do not include ophthalmia neonatorum, measles and
German measles and tuberculosis, which have been omitted so as to keep the
statistics for 1919 comparable with those for past years. The figures for
measles and German measles infected houses during 1919 are:—65 defective
drains and 265 defective traps and appliances, out of a total of 1,000 infected
houses inspected. No testing of drains is carried out as a routine in the case
of ophthalmia neonatorum and tuberculosis-infected houses.
* Granted unconditionally. † Refused.