London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
This page requires JavaScript
56
1926]
RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) ACTS, 1920, 1923 AND 1925. Number of applications for certificates and "reports " under above Acts,
| Year. | House or part of the house not kept in a reasonable state of repair. | House or part of the house kept in a reasonable state of repair. | " Report " re completion of work mentioned in schedule issued with certificate. | Certificates not issued. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 25 | 28 | — | 1 | 54 |
| 1921 | 269 | 52 | 1 | 5 | 327 |
| 1922 | 157 | 25 | 11 | 2 | 195 |
| 1923 | 123 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 148 |
| 1924 | 117 | 6 | 19 | — | 142 |
| 1925 | 96 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 116 |
| 1926 | 68 | 4 | 26 | 2 | 100 |
STATE OF PAUPERISM IN THE BOROUGH.
There was a slight increase in the number of paupers relieved during the
year for the weekly average was 10,592, compared with 10,583 in 1925 and 11,792
in 1924.
Appended is a statement furnished by the Clerk to the Islington Guardians :—
| Quarters. | Average number Relieved during each week. | Borough Death rates, 1926. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor Paupers, Adults and Children. | Outdoor Paupers. | Totals. | Totals corresponding periods 1925. | Children Boarded out. | |||
| Adults. | Children under 16. | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 1st Quarter | 3,032 | 4,755 | 2.938 | 10,725 | 11,163 | 35 | 15.0 |
| 2nd „ | 2,950 | 4,985 | 3,240 | 11,175 | 10,562 | 35 | 10.9 |
| 3rd „ | 2,830 | 4,619 | 2,614 | 10.063 | 9,960 | 33 | 9.6 |
| 4th „ | 2,971 | 4,700 | 2 733 | 10,404 | 10,650 | 33 | 12.7 |
| The Year | 2,946 | 4,765 | 2,881 | 10,592 | 10,583 | 34 | 12.1 |
INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION OF FOOD AND PLACES WHERE
FOOD IS PREPARED.
Food—Inspection of.—Inspector Wilkinson reports that during the year
he has paid 716 visits to the 13 Slaughter Houses now on the register, including
one Horse Slaughter House, and that he has ascertained that 9,625 animals
were killed therein, namely, 552 oxen and cows, 40 calves, 5,428 sheep and lambs,
60 pigs and 3,545 horses for human consumption, practically the whole of which
were exported. These were mostly of good quality and free from disease, but in 49
cases meat and organs found to be diseased were destroyed (vide table on page 62),