London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1912

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

62
Annual Report of the London County Council, 1912.

Table: The following table, which is compiled entirely from information contained in the annual reports, shows the action taken by sanitary authorities in respect of smoke nuisance during the year, so far as this is stated in those reports.

The following table, which is compiled entirely from information contained in the annual reports, shows the action taken by sanitary authorities in respect of smoke nuisance during the year, so far as this is stated in those reports.

Metropolitan borough.Observations and inspections.Nuisances and complaints.Intimations.Statutory Notices.Summonses.
Battersea80323—
Bermondsey47 (ohimneys)16—
Bethnal Green100 ( „ )24263—
Camberwell——99——
Chelsea—None———
Deptford12——8—
Finsbury66614——
Fulham—————
Greenwich194——4—
Hackney1,521—40——
Hammersmith20 (premises)A number8162
Hampstead—6———
Holborn1ll—51—
Islington158——13—_
Kensington304——6—
Lambeth1918As required——
Lewisham228—5——
Paddington20 (premises)5———
Poplar—542912—
St. Marylebone1,3861061—
St. Pancras710—8——
Shoreditch11 (premises)916——
South wark8723145—
Stepney—62—62—
Stoke Newington—93——
Wandsworth19255—50—
Westminster, City of1,72243(a)1428—
Woolwich801914——

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Housing,
Town Planning
Act,
Section 17
Housing of the Working Classes.
Article V of the regulations made by the Local Government Board in September, 1910, under
this Act, requires that the "medical officer of health shall include in his annual report information and
particulars in tabular form in regard to the number of dwelling houses inspected under and for the
purposes of section 17 of the Act of 1909, the number of dwelling houses which on inspection were
considered to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, the
number of representations made to the local authority with a view to the making of closing orders,
the number of closing orders made, the number of dwelling houses the defects in which were remedied
without the making of closing orders, the number of dwelling houses which, after the making of
closing orders, were put into a fit state for human habitation, and the general character of the
defects found to exist. He shall also include any other information and particulars which he may
consider desirable in regard to the work of inspection under the said section."

Table: Information of these proceedings is not given in tabular form in several of the reports, and the following table has been mainly compiled from the information otherwise contained in them:—

Information of these proceedings is not given in tabular form in several of the reports, and the following table has been mainly compiled from the information otherwise contained in them:—

politan borough.No. of houses inspected.No. of houses dealt with under • Seotion 15.No. of representations, 1912.No. of closing orders, 1912.No. of houses, defects remedied without closing orders.No. of houses, defects remedied after closing ordersNo. of houses demolished.Remarks.
Battersea22626
Bermondsey23231929
Bethnal Green664362118818
Camberwell87191
Chelsea
Deptford2,479.124241517
Finsbury1,336111
Fulham444438 other houses voluntarily closed.
Greenwich4863389
Continued on next page.
(a) Complaints only.