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London County Council 1906

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

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SANITARY OFFICERS.

Metropolitan borough.Number of sanitary inspectors.Census, 1901.Houses let in lodgings.Duties of sanitary inspector.Assistants.Clerical staff.
Inhabited houses.Total tenements.Tenements under 5 rooms.* Overcrowded tenements-Population.Population in tenements under 5 rooms.Population in overcrowded tenements.Average per sanitary inspector.No. of houses let in lodgings on the register.No. of times a year these houses are inspected.
Males.Females.Inhabited houses.Tenements.Tenements under 5 rooms.Overcrowded tenements.PopulationPopulation in tenements under 5 rooms.Population in overcrowded tenements.
Deptford715,82324,61513,9561,667110,39851,8619,9992,2603,5161,99323815,7717,4081,428269Onee.Five have each an assigned district in which they perform generally the duties of a sanitary inspector.One is charged with the duties under the Dairies and Milkshops order, Factory and Workshop Act, Canal Boats Acts, and the regulations as to slaughterhouses, knackers' yards, offensive businesses, throughout the borough.One is concerned with infectious disease, prepares statistics and does clerical work. All inspectors are qualified to act under the Food and Drugs Act.(a) 3 disinfecting assistants.1
Finsbury92#,28024,09720,5156.373101,46378,34635, <238432,1901,8655799,2247,1223,2471,270Average twice or three timesOne acts as chief inspector and supervises generally.Six have each an allotted district in which they carry out duties imposed by the Metropolis Management, Public Health and Food and Drugs Acts, and supervise sanitary and drainage works in old buildings. They also supervise houses let in lodgings and are concerned with smoke nuisances. One also has oversight of Regent's Canal (within borough) and boats thereon.One is concerned with Factory and Workshop inspection.One is a meat and market inspector.Two (females) are concerned with the inspection of factories and workshops where females are employed, out-workers' homes, etc., and make special enquiries into infantile deaths and cases of measles.In certain cases they also visit homes of newly-born infants.(a) 1 disinfector.(4) 2 mortuary keepers one of whom also di s i n fects rooms, and the other also works steam disinfector.(c) 1 shelter keeper (who also disinfects rooms).(d) 1 van driver who also assists with disinfection.2 and 1 office youth.
Fulham ...6! 118,63432,13721,6812,341137,28981,36414,8922,6484,5913,09733419,61811,6232,127329Twice.693 Inspections in 1905.Five have each an assigned district, in which they perform all duties arising under the Public Health Act and Factory and Workshop Act.One is employed on duties arising under the Food and Drugs Act and in the inspection of places where food is sold or stored.One (female) is chiefly engaged in the inspection of workshops, etc., where women are employed, but also visits after notification of birth.(à) 2 drainage inspectors.(á) 4 disinfectors and 3 assistants.(c) 1 mortuary keeper2
Greenwich514,24019,70210,8771,19995,77041,2607,9472,84S3,9402,17524019,1548,2521,5893One is concerned with infectious disease.Four have each an allotted district in which they are concerned with duties under the Public Health and Factory and Workshops Act.(a) 3 disinfecting assistants.2
Hackney15230,63448,79429,0893,684219,272104,87622,3321,8022,8701,71121712,8986,1691,314463Once.Twelve have each an assigned district, in which they are concerned with duties arising under the Public Health, Factory and Workshop and Food Adulteration Acts. One of these inspectors performs duties under the Canal Boats Act (for which he gets £26 a year, no part of which is repayable by the London County Council). One is concerned with dairies, cowsheds, milkshops, slaughterhouses and knackers' yards and is also food inspector.Two are engaged upon house-to-house inspection.The inspectors supervise reconstruction and alteration of drains but not in new premises.One (female) inspects workshops, laundries, etc., where female labour is employed.One (female) inspects the houses of outworkers.(a) 1 dust inspector, and one assistant.(i) 9 assistants for disinfecting.(c) 1 mortuary keeper, 1 temporary shelter caretaker (and wife).(d) 1 drain-testing assistant, 1 smoke nuisance assistant.(«) varying number of dustmen.4 and 1 messenger.
Hammer-smith915,198I 25,81015,5052,185112,23955,25913,1921,6892,8681,72324312,4716,1401,4662472Indefinite.Four have each an assigned district,_in which they are concerned with all duties arising under Public Health (London) Act.One makes a systematic house-to-house inspection of the district.One is employed on houses let in lodgings. One is employed on duties arising under the Food and Drugs Acts and supervision of dustbins. One is concerned with duties transferred from the L.C.C., and also smoke nuisances.One is concerned with factories and workshops.(a) 2 assistants for disinfection.(b) 1 mortuary keeper.(c) 2 drainage inspectors.3