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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
London County Council 1906
[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 244 applications for cowhouse licences, of which
240 were granted. The number of applications for licences received during the last thirteen 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
qranted.
1894 456 446
1895 427 416
1896 405 393
1897 379 374
1898 357 354
1899 338 330
1900 323 321
1901 306 295
1902 294 291
1903 282 277
1904 266 259
1905 257 55*
1906 244 240
In 1903 effort was made, in conjunction with the medical officers of health of London istricts.
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 :—
| [Sanitary area. | Number of cowshed premises. | Number of Inspections 1906. | Number of notices 1906. | Number of prosecutions 1906. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1905. | Added in 1900. | Removed in 1906. | On register at end of 1906. | ||||
| Paddington | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | |
| Kensington | 1 | – | – | 1 | 37 | – | - |
| Fulham | 3 | – | 1 | 2 | 20 | 1 | - |
| Chelsea | 4 | – | 1 | 3 | 61 | – | - |
| Westminster, City of | 2 | – | – | 2 | 68 | – | – |
| St. Marylebone | 6 | – | – | 6 | 12 | – | – |
| St. Pancras | 10 | – | 1 | 9 | – | – | |
| Islington | 9 | – | – | 9 | 114 | – | – |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Hackney | 23 | – | 1 | 22 | 250 | 4 | – |
| Holborn | 1 | – | – | 1 | 50 | 1 | – |
| Finsbury | 6 | – | 1 | 5 | 24 | 1 | – |
| Shoreditch | 7 | – | – | 7 | 20 | – | – |
| Bethnal Green | 15 | – | – | 15 | 109 | 3 | – |
| Stepney | 40 | – | 2 | 38 | 60 | 1 | |
| Poplar | 16 | – | 1 | 15 | 89 | – | – |
| Southwark | 5 | – | – | 5 | 66 | 2 | – |
| Bermondsey | 7 | – | – | 7 | 127 | 1 | – |
| Lambeth | 15 | – | 1 | 14 | 30 | 4 | – |
| Battersea | 3 | – | – | 3 | 11 | 3 | – |
| Wandsworth | 14 | 1 | – | 15 | 62 | – | – |
| Camberwell | 20 | – | 17 | 292 | – | – | |
| Deptford | 6 | – | 1 | 5 | 41 | 4 | – |
| Greenwich | 4 | – | – | 4 | 14 | 12 | – |
| Lewisham | 15 | – | – | 15 | 133 | 7 | – |
| Woolwich | 18 | – | 1 | 17 | 95 | 8 | – |
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows. London County Council (General Powers) Act, 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
(a) 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.
* In two instances two licences were issued in respect of separate sheds on the same premises.
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