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London County Council 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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difference shall be paid out of the fund to the sanitary authority of the district forming or comprising
the parish ; and if it exceeds the grant due to the parish, the Council shall, for the special
purpose of meeting the excess, levy on the parish a county contribution as a separate item of the
county rate.
Every sum paid to a sanitary authority must be applied in defraying the expenses of the
sanitary authority incurred under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and so far as not
required for that purpose those incurred in respect of lighting, and so far as not required for
that purpose those incurred in respect of streets, and where the sanitary district comprises two or
more parishes the sum paid must be apportioned among such parishes in proportion to their
population, and the amount apportioned to each parish credited to each parish in the reduction of
the rate required from such parish towards the above-mentioned expenses.
The sanitary authority is required to render annually to the Local Government Board a
return showing the amount of the sum to be paid and the total expenses incurred in respect of
the three subjects mentioned.
If the Local Government Board, under section 101 of the Public Health (London) Act, are
satisfied that the sanitary authority has been guilty of such default as in such section mentioned,
and have made an order limiting a time for the performance of the duty of the authority, the
London County Council shall, if directed by the Local Government Board, withhold the whole or
any part of the payment of the sum due to such authority.
The Act provides that for the purposes of the distribution of the fund an estimate of
population on the 6th April will be made by the Registrar-General upon returns which the
Local Government Board will receive from the authority making the poor rate in each parish
showing the total number of houses entered in the rate of the parish.
The following table shows the population in 1901 and the amount of excess of contribution over grant, or of grant over contribution in respect of each district for the year ended 31st March, 1902—
| Population, 1901. | Equalisation charge being excess of contribution over grant. | Net grant being excess of grant over contribution. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | 8. | d. | ||||
| Paddington | 143,976 | 4,599 | 9 | 9 | — | ||
| Kensington | 176,628 | 16,698 | 18 | 3 | — | ||
| Hammersmith | 112,239 | — | 7,930 | 12 | 2 | ||
| Fulham | 137,289 | — | 11,616 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Chelsea | 73,842 | 3,802 | 10 | 6 | — | ||
| Westminster, City of | 183,011 | 95,881 | 13 | 9 | — | ||
| St. Marylebone | 133,301 | 12,775 | 6 | 2 | — | ||
| Hampstead | 81,942 | 5,504 | 15 | 4 | — | ||
| St. Pancras | 235,317 | — | 6,611 | 9 | 1 | ||
| Islington | 334,981 | — | 25,764 | — | — | ||
| Stoke Newington | 51,247 | — | 2,683 | 19 | 11 , | ||
| Hackney | 219.272 | — | 19,062 | 18 | 3 | ||
| Holborn | 59,425 | 9,772 | 7 | 5 | — | ||
| Finsbury | 101,463 | 1,561 | 14 | 8 | — | ||
| London, City of | 26,689 | 114,755 | 3 | 7 | — | ||
| Shoreditch | 118,668 | — | 6,792 | 14 | 10 | ||
| Bethnal-green | 129,680 | — | 15,464 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Stepney | 298,600 | — | 30,311 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Poplar | 168,822 | — | 17,449 | 13 | 3 | ||
| Southwark | 206,160 | — | 13,809 | 17 | 8 | ||
| Bermondsey | 130,730 | — | 6,135 | 3 | 5 | ||
| Lambeth | 301,895 | — | 19,706 | 11 | 8 | ||
| Battersea | 168,909 | — | 12,022 | 14 | 4 | ||
| Wandsworth | 232,024 | — | 12,758 | 8 | 11 | ||
| Camberwell | 259,339 | — | 25,458 | 19 | 6 | ||
| Deptford | 110,388 | — | 9,189 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Greenwich | 95,780 | — | 6,502 | 8 | 11 | ||
| Lewisham | 127,495 | — | 6,953 | 16 | 11 | ||
| Woolwich | 117,178 | — | 10,087 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Inner Temple | 127 | 600 | 17 | — | — | ||
| Middle Temple | 107 | 358 | 16 | 8 | — | ||
Sanitary Officers.
Appended to this report (see appendix IV.) will be found a return which was prepared
under the instruction of the Public Health Committee, showing particulars as to the sanitary
officers in the service of the several sanitary authorities of London in 1901. The
number of sanitary inspectors employed in London at the time of the return was 275. The
reports of medical officers of health supply additional information. At the end of the year
an increase in the staff of officers was decided upon by the Paddington Borough Council. The
appointment of an additional inspector in Hammersmith enabled an increased number of notices
to be served in respect of workshops. The medical officer of health of Westminster shows how
the several duties are distributed among the inspectors, and he adds that the extra duties
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