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London County Council 1914
Annual report of the Council, 1914 Vol. III public health...
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Report of the County Medical Officer—General.
B—Administration.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
The Council received during the year 108 applications for cowhouse licences, 164 of which were granted. The numbers of applications for licences received during the last twenty-one years and the numbers granted are shown in the following table. It will be seen that the number of these premises in London is continually decreasing.
| Year. | No. of applications received. | No. of premises for which licences were granted. | Year. | No. of applications received. | No. of premises for which licences were granted. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 456 | 446 | 1905 | 257 | 255 |
| 1895 | 427 | 416 | 1906 | 244 | 240 |
| 1890 | 405 | 393 | 1907 | 234 | 233 |
| 1897 | 379 | 374 | 1908 | 229 | 225 |
| 1898 | 357 | 354 | 1909 | 216 | 214 |
| 1899 | 338 | 330 | 1910 | 203 | 199 |
| 1901 | 323 | 321 | 1911 | 194 | 187 |
| 1901 | 306 | 295 | 1912 | 180 | 180 |
| 1902 | 294 | 291 | 1913 | 174 | 171 |
| 1903 | 282 | 277 | 1914 | 168 | 164 |
| 1904 | 266 | 259 |
Cowshed
premises.
| Metropolitan borough. | Number of cowshed premises. | Number of inspections by the sanitary authority, 1914.- | Number of prosecutions by sanitary authoritv, 1914." | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1913. | Added in 1914. | Removed in 1914. | On register at end of 1914. | |||
| Battersea | 2 | — | _ | 2 | Frequent. | — |
| Bermondsey | 1 | — | — | 1 | 5 | — |
| Bethnal Green | 13 | — | — | 13 | 60 | — |
| Camberwell | 9 | — | — | 9 | 102 | — |
| Chelsea | 1 | — | 1 | — | 6 | — |
| Deptford | 2 | — | — | 2 | 33 | — |
| Finsbury | 3 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | — |
| Greenwich | 4 | — | — | 4 | 22 | — |
| Hackney | 14 | — | — | 14 | 198 | — |
| Islington | 4 | — | — | 4 | 56 | — |
| Kensington | 1 | — | — | 1 | 42 | — |
| Lambeth | 11 | — | 1 | 10 | 22 | — |
| Lewisham | 13 | — | 2 | 11 | 142 | — |
| Paddington | 1 | — | — | 1 | 4 | — |
| Poplar | 12 | — | 1 | 11 | 44 | — |
| St. Marylebonc | 5 | — | — | 5 | 38 | — |
| St. Pancras | 5 | — | — | 5 | 61 | — |
| Shoreditch | 7 | — | 1 | 6 | 57 | — |
| Southwark | 3 | — | — | 3 | 33 | — |
| Stepney | 31 | — | — | 31 | 48 | — |
| Stoke Newington | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Wandsworth | 11 | — | — | 11 | 45 | — |
| Westminster, City of .. | 1 | — | — | 1 | 23 | — |
| Woolwich | 16 | — | — | 16 | 35 | — |
| Totals for 24 districts | 171 | — | 7 | 164 | — | — |
Inspection
of cowshed
premises.
Section 5 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, gives power to local sanitary
authorities to remove from the register or to refuse to register the name of any person carrying on or
proposing to carry on the trade of a dairyman or purveyor of milk upon premises which are in the
opinion of the sanitary authority unsuitable for the purpose. These powers have been much used, with
the result that the sale of milk in small general shops has materially decreased in recent years.
The following table shows the number of milkshop premises at the end of 1913 and 1914 in the
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Milkshops.