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London County Council 1915

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

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Table: TABLE II.COUNTY OF LONDON.Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1915.

TABLE II.

COUNTY OF LONDON.

Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1915.

Sanitary Authority.No. licensed.No. of inspections.No. licensedNo. of inspections.No. licensed.No. of Inspections.Observations.Complaints.Notices.No. illegally occupied.No. closed or otherwise remedied.Instances found.No. remedied.Houses Inspected.Representations made.Closing orders.Remedied without closing orders.No. on register.No. of inspections.Prosecutions.Houses licensed.Authorised lodgers.Adults.Children.Premises or rooms.Tenement houses extra supply.No. on register.No. of inspections.No. on register.No. of inspections.No. of places.No. of inspections.
City of London--7*--12619---22175---200450---42116-6121,005186†‡1080‡957
Battersea234632121071074252531312,12410—10114364—21476481,2732,701871635591924022581,349
Bermondsey—312011257882929——2121————22364151,261231,9291,909—253768951109034,448
Bethnal Green13703271510055——114384———2801,271—1157318—4,345—2397611102632331,200
Camberwell81351085292015——6666————29244415466562,762124—6141,356268360173343
Chelsea——439——111——33270——————4236——396510714334356570
Deptford231251325104—221222,24355—289578—81,231-1,2401,063—252401143217125232
Finsbury21622161068588717175922—1,1347,17011650331—776418533388214268368
Fulham——246——911511101084——84———298——33412185470106132
Greenwich310425320141__2217178835—2224723—3121—260158—140162104114241241
Hackney13341202961151,458283233757548292921469207—74981531,03567222961,46020422212787
Hammersmith——7211——1173924114343842626—2,7391,292—9474——9713066172281621,999
Hampstead——451——1482261588273323405920———25363889982678113754288
Holborn——17——3211833331515213115629998—201,41468—105316550770772921,921
Islington452231,3038999090921219191—888—8,487—381,32388044,9361015731,19923812257912,475
Kensington1558255——2501561212484831699—2,0657,340620625390502437561991,2502092318121,729
Lambeth72016192272—333324244141————3722,232—5645——1,0802391,434462428
Lewisham117812127——79114——5555733—816—130——70—147348——51183
Paddington146265——18111—22605113411—1,4256,29187221——282911517196117551739
Poplar11361373640—33-——4848391717221,1683,897—799414487529922341,030932512601,149
St. Marylebone5324412401,0728—662929373322241,1693,033—111,1374,9951,6809197194530117185270742
St. Pancras5581220825730313—494955551,52418291,5062,3649,059255794212,9891,611338257695325386—4,042
Shoreditch5233281111211131131333—280287—9648—-44662912,61492193295772
Southwark331584327531513——229229————1,2822,86737343,347682,601733325141,544198446,023
Stepney3063411727—45—2727323323232323—2,5473,870—426,039588—1,81555751,9531934024341,201
Stoke Newington18420--16211155359———236236—137—3221223661072572379
Wandsworth115012329347661111_—4040_———292684-719944—241—4007563474251,154
Westminster123————2,02267128121129298224371,2448,982682,06239413692124779921552411,5646,032
Woolwich15541040——44669497974,707119142057621851888866390710517187124131

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Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return ; a blank, no information.
Common lodging houses: Licensed number, 295; lodgers, 25,426; visits—day, 25,827, night, 1,696; convictions, 3; penalties, £8 lis.
Seamen's lodging houses: Licensed number, 13 in Poplar, 410 lodgers; 30 in Stepney, 776 lodgers; visits-day, 1,660, night, 255; convictions, 8; penalties, £76 16s.
Prosecutions: Milkshops— Bethnal Green, 2, Chelsea 1, Paddington 1; smoke nuisances — Bermondsey, 1; water supply—Islington 1, St. Pancras, 1, Southwark, 2;
overcrowding— Southwark, 1, Woolwich, 3.
* Continuous supervision during the regular hours of slaughter. When slaughtering is required at other hours, the Slaughterhouse Bye-laws provide for notice being
given to the Medical Officer of Health in order that arrangements may be mado for an Inspector to be present. † Frequent Inspections,
‡ In addition to these premises, there are Cold Stores, Butchers' Shops and the Central Meat Market, all of which are kept under constant supervision.