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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1951
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1951
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STREET AND OPEN MARKETS Number of licences in operation during 1951 :—
| Street markets | 102 | ||
| Open markets | 287 | ||
| Total | 389 | ||
| Income for 1951 :— | £ | s. | d. |
| Street markets | 1,127 | 5 | 6 |
| Open markets | 4,578 | 6 | 0 |
| Total | £5,705 | 11 | 6 |
The markets have run smoothly during the year ; income was
up by £273 17s. 6d. on 1950 ; there were no prosecutions against
licensed traders.
There were 387 successful prosecutions against unlicensed
traders, all "barrow boys" trading in the London Bridge area. Fines
totalling £705 9s. 6d. were imposed with costs amounting to £277 15s. 6d.
Thirteen further summonses were dealt with as follows: 3 were
adjourned sine die owing to the continued illness of police witnesses,
2 were adjourned sine die as the defendant had been called up for
military service, 4 were dismissed as the magistrate was not satisfied
that the evidence was conclusive, and 4 were marked "Not separately
dealt with", the defendants having been convicted and fined for
offences committed on the same day.