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London County Council 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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PART II. Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops. The County Council received during the year 257 applications for cowhouse licences, of which 255 were granted. The number of applications for licences received during the last twelve years and the number granted are shown in the following table. It will be seen that the number of these premises in London is continually decreasing.

No of applications received.No. of premises for which licences were granted.
1894456446
1895427416
1896405393
1897379374
1898357354
1899338330
1900323321
1901306295
1902294291
1903282277
1904266259
1905257255

In 1903 effort was made, in conjunction with the medical officers of health of London districts,
to secure uniform statistical statement of the several proceedings of the sanitary authorities. Tables
showing these proceedings included in this report have therefore, in the main, been compiled from
tabular statements in the annual reports of medical officers of health or from figures otherwise contained
in their reports. The following table relating to cowsheds has been thus prepared :—

Cowsheds.

Sanitary area.Number of cowshed premises.Number of Inspections 1905.Number of notices 1905.Number of prosecutions 1905.
On register at end of 1904.Added in 1905.Removed in 1905.On register at end of 1905.
Paddington1_-14--
Kensington1-126
Fulham3-312_
Chelsea4-458_-
Westminster, City of3-234
St. Marylebone66
St. Pancras10-10189-
Islington10-i9116
Stoke Newington2-2
Hackney23-23309
Ilolborn1-_1-
Finsbury6-6694-
Shoreditch7-_742-
Bethnal Green15-_15843-
Stepney40-40764
Poplar16-1680
Southwark5-579
Bermondsey7-71034-
Lambeth17-215
Battersea3-_3-
Wandsworth15-114564-
Camberwell20-_20307-
Deptford ..6-6376
Greenwich4-41213-
Lewisham16-11512251
Woolwich18-1872111

In two instances the borough councils took proceedings against cowkeepers for keeping cows
in unlicensed sheds, and fines were imposed. The Council's inspectors attended the hearing of the
cases to give evidence in support of the prosecutions.
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows. London County Council (General Powers) Adt, 1904 (Part V.).
Under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1899, the Council's powers were limited to
taking proceedings for penalties only in the event of milk from cows certified by a veterinary surgeon to
be affected with tubercular disease of the udder, being either
(а) mixed with other milk, or
(b) sold or used for human food, or
(c) sold or used for the food of swine without having first been boiled.