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Holborn 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

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TABLE IV.
INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
PREMISES.
Number in Borough
at end of 1933.
Number of
Inspections.
Number of
Prosecutions.
Common Lodging House
6
79
...
Cowsheds
...
...
...
Milkshops
146
135
...
Registered houses lot in lodgings
461
891
...
Ice cream premises
28
95
...
Siaughter-houscs
1
12
...
Offen ive Trades
...
...
...
Restaurants nnd Eating Houses
287
514
...
Housing of the Working Classes—
Number of houses inspected :—
(a) Oil account of complaints or illness (Public Health Act) 614
(b) House to house (Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925) 142
Number of notices served : —
(a) Under Public Health Act: —
(i.) Intimation 496
(ii.) Statutory 58
(b) Under Housing Act —
Number of houses repaired or nuisances remedied under Public Health Act 496
Number of houses repaired under Section 17 of Housing Act:—
(a) By owners —
b) By local authority in default of owners
Number of houses closed on notice by owner that they could not be made fit
Number of houses for the working classes :—
(a) Erected during year (erection completed) l block (28 flats)
(b) In course of erection
Number of representations by Medical Officer or other person 4
Number of houses included in such representations 4 part house
Number of Closing Orders made Nil
Number of Closing Orders determined (i.e., houses made fit) Nil
Number of Demolition Orders Nil
Number of houses demolished:—
(a) In pursuance of Orders Nil
(b) Voluntarily
Total number of houses in the borough 6462
(Census, 1931)
Number of houses occupied by the working classes 7285
Underground Booms—
Number illegally occupied, notices served 4
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued 4
0vercrowding-
Number of cases of overcrowding found; notices served 2
Number of prosecutions
Number remedied 2
Smoke Nuisances—
Number of observations 186
Number of notices 8
Number of complaints
Number of summonses _
Cleansing and Disinfection—
Number of adults cleansed 201
Number of children cleansed 11
Number of premises disinfected :—
(a) After infectious diseases 278
(b) For vermin 191
Water Supply to Tene.ment Houses—
Number of promises supplied 7
Number of prosecutions —
Sanitary Officers—
Number of Sanitary Inspectors (whole-time) Male 3 Female —
Number of Sanitary Inspectors (part-time) Male — Female 1
Number of Health Visitors (whole-time) 1 part-time 1