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City of London 1920
Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London for the year 1920
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HYGIENE OF HAIRDRESSERS' AND BARBERS' SHOPS.
The Registered Hairdressers' establishments throughout the City remain under
the supervision of your officers, and there are now ten proprietors of these places who
hold certificates, and have undertaken to comply with the Regulations of the
Corporation for the conduct of their business.
The following is a list of those proprietors at present on the Register:—
Walter Hartley, trading as the Army and Navy Toilet Club, 35, Bucklersbury.
Kingston and Hubbard, 8 and 10, Ludgate.
Chas. Lehman, 8 and 9, Aldermanbury Postern.
Martin Longman, 75, Mark Lane.
Thos. W. Monk, 5, Angel Court.
Marsh and Priner, 36, Coleman Street.
Pierre Pozzi, 16, Lawrence Lane.
Harry G. Wicks, trading as Arthur and Co., 42a, Old Broad Street.
The Hairdressers' establishments formerly conducted at No. 3, Mason's Court,
60, Fore Street, and 39, Basinghall Street, have been discontinued.
FOOD SUPPLIES.
No new action of an administrative character has been operative during the past
year.
Your Medical Officer of Health has served on a Departmental Committee appointed
to consider the question of meat inspection, and the Report of this Committee will
shortly be issued.
The following Report is submitted by Mr. T. Dunlop Young, your Veterinary
Surgeon.
IMPORTED MEAT FOR THE YEAR 1920.— According to the Board of Trade Returns, the total weights of the various descriptions of frozen and chilled meat imported into the United Kingdom during the past four years, and the values of the 1920 arrivals, were as follows, viz.:—
| From | 1917. | 1918. | 1919. | 1920. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 80,191 tons. | 28,888 tons. | 69,044 tons. | 154,743 tons. |
| New Zealand | 99,768 „ | 84,715 „ | 121,209 „ | 197,305 „ |
| Argentine | 157,098 „ | 135,717 „ | 242,128 „ | 364,808 „ |
| Uruguay | 13,014 „ | 13,375 „ | 21,322 „ | 41,774 „ |
| United States | 46,906 „ | 179,179 „ | 42,809 „ | 11,233 „ |
| Other Countries | 36,231 „ | 47,462 „ | 31,842 „ | 40,552 „ |
| Totals | 433,203 tons. | 489,336 tons. | 528,354 tons. | 810,415 tons. |
| Australia | 85,699 tons. | £12,575,209 | £81 | |
| New Zealand | 76,096 „ | 16,278,809 | 82 | |
| Argentine | 122,680 „ | 33,842,101 | 93 | |
| Uruguay | 20,452 „ | 3,807,627 | 91 | |
| United States | 31,576 „ | 1,124,367 | 100 | |
| Other Countries | 8,710 „ | 3,887,031 | 96 | |
| Totals | 282,061 tons. | £71,515,144 | £88 | |
The importations of beef, mutton and lamb from all sources in 1920, viz.,
810,415 tons, valued at £71,515,144, greatly exceeded those of any other year in the
history of the trade, the highest figures previously recorded being an aggregate of
720,661 tons in 1913, and a valuation of £48,590,200 in 1919.