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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

Lambeth 1899

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1899

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Defective Gully 1
Uncemented Walls 1
Defective Walls 1
Pen used as Stable 1
Defective Paving 4
Defective W.C. 2
Pigs kept so as to be a nuisance in
Stable 1
In 28 of the Slaughter-houses no sanitary defects were
discovered, whilst the general condition of the premises in
all was found to be satisfactory. In only two cases was a
result obtained from the drain test.

Table: All the Slaughter-houses are retail, with the exception of two (which are both retail and wholesale), and the estimated weekly number of animals killed in Lambeth private Slaughter-houses are (roughly) as follow:—

All the Slaughter-houses are retail, with the exception of two (which are both retail and wholesale), and the estimated weekly number of animals killed in Lambeth private Slaughter-houses are (roughly) as follow:—

Cattle53
Sheep768Total 889
Pigs68
Calves occasionally.

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COWHOUSES.
There were in 1898, 27 registered Cowhouses in Lambeth
Parish, and of these one (26, Somers Road) has since
become empty.
During 1899, 26 applications have been received for
renewal of licenses, but only 24 were granted by the
London County Council, as follows—the 2 licenses in
connection with 324, Camberwell New Road and 40, Gipsy
Road, being refused by the Council, the Vestry objecting
in each case on account of defective paving, which the
licensees refused to make good:—