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London County Council 1907
[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 234 applications for cowhouse licences, of which
233 were granted. The number of applications for licences received during the last fourteen years and the
number granted are shown in the following table.
It will be seen that the number c. these premises in London is continually decreasing.
| No. of applications received. | No. of premises for which licences were granted. | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2551 |
| 1906 | 244 | 240 |
| 1907 | 234 | 233 |
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 :—
| Sanitary area. | Number of cowshed premises. | Number of inspections by the sanitary authority 1907. | Number of prosecutions by sanitary authority 1907. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1906. | Added in 1907. | Removed in 1907. | On register at end of 1907. | |||
| • • Paddington | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Kensington | 1 | - | - | 1 | 41 | - |
| Fulham | 2 | 2 | 24 | - | ||
| Chelsea | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 48 | |
| Westminster, City of | 2 | - | - | 2 | 48 | - |
| St. Marylebone | 6 | - | 6 | - | ||
| St. Pancras | 9 | - | - | 9 | 196 | - |
| Islington | 9 | - | 2 | 7 | 107 | - |
| Stoke Newington | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | |
| Hackney | 22 | - | 1 | 21 | 238 | — |
| Ilolborn | 1 | - | - | 1 | 52 | - |
| Finsbury | 5 | - | - | 5 | 19 | - |
| Shoreditch | 7 | - | - | 7 | 17 | - |
| Bethnal Green | 15 | - | - | 15 | 81 | - |
| Stepney | 38 | - | - | 38 | 69 | |
| Poplar | 15 | - | - | 15 | 68 | - |
| Southwark | 5 | - | — | 5 | 51 | - |
| Bermondsey | 7 | - | - | 7 | 64 | - |
| Lambeth | 14 | - | - | 14 | - | |
| Battersea | 3 | - | - | 3 | 14 | - |
| Wandsworth | 15 | - | 2 | 13 | 68 | — |
| Camberwell | 17 | - | 1 | 16 | 285 | - |
| Deptford | 5 | - | - | 5 | 51 | - |
| Greenwich | 4 | - | - | 4 | 11 | - |
| Lewisham | 15 | - | - | 15 | 169 | - |
| Woolwich | 17 | 17 | 85 | - | ||
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows. London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904 (Part F.).
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.