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B.—Administration.
The administrative section of this report has been altered in arrangement, and considerably
curtailed; the statistical information available being summarised in a general table.
Tuberculms Milk—L.C.C. (General Powers) Acts, 1904, Part V., and 1907, Part IV.
The Council's inspectors obtained 1,198 samples from churns of milk consigned from the country
to the various London railway termini, and these were submitted to the Lister Institute for bacteriological
examination. The milk was sent to London from 31 counties. Of 1,160 completed examinations,
101 or 8.7 per cent. yielded tubercle bacilli, as against 6.5 per cent. in 1915 and 7.9 per cent. in 1914.
In connection with these samples, the Veterinary Inspector visited 106 farms and examined 3,570 cows.
It was found that 70 cows—i.e., 1.96 per cent. showed signs of tuberculosis in one or more of its forms,
or were otherwise unhealthy. In the case of each cow suffering from tuberculosis, the farmer undertook
to have the animal slaughtered, and meanwhile not again to use the milk. In addition the inspector
re.visited 92 farms, and inspected 3,814 cows; all the animals examined at these re.visits were found
to be in a satisfactory condition. In consequence of the suspension of the Tuberculosis Order, 1914,
owing to the war, the powers of the Council in respect of the examination of cows in London cowsheds
have been exercised under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of 1899, and Part V. of
the L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1904. During the period 14th February, 1916, to 26th January, 1917,
there were four inspections of the cows kept in the 154 London cowsheds. In all, 9,000 examinations
were made. No cases of tuberculosis of the udder were detected, but in 76 cases other unhealthy
conditions of the udder were found. Five cows were found presenting symptoms of pulmonary or
general tuberculosis, and these were slaughtered or disposed of by the owners.
Housing of the Working Classes Acts.
Owing largely to conditions brought about by the war, the provisions of section 17 of the Housing
and Town Planning Act have not been utilised to any great extent during the year. The action taken
by the metropolitan borough councils under the Act with regard to the making of representations and
closing orders is shown in the following table—the figures for the years 1914 and 1915 being included
for comparison.
Metropolitan borough.
No. of
representations.
No. of
closing orders.
No. of houses
demolished.
1914.
1915
1916.
1914.
1915.
1916.
1914.
1915.
1916.
Battersea
Bermondsey
Bethnal Green
Camberwell
Chelsea
Deptford
Finsbury
Fulham
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith
Hampstead
Holborn
Islington
Kensington
Lambeth
Lewisham
Paddington
Poplar
St. Marylebone
St. Pancras
Shoreditch
Southwark
Stepney
Stoke Newington
Wandsworth
Westminster, City of
Woolwich
185
31
3
5
193
37
9
2
21
13
7
5
10
1
37
6
18
3
5
2
1
29
26
3
3
8
9
6
1
17
3
18
3
23
2
11
31
2
4
I
5
15
4
6
38
25
5
6
9
2
1
3
7
3
5
10
6
9
3
5
2
1
29
26
3
1
8
9
12
1
17
2
29
3
23
4
9
16
2
12
4
4
5
9
34
1
4
36
6
5
6
7
6
2
6
11
7
2
2
3
1
8
8
22
7
32
6
31
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Depletion of Sanitary Staffs.
Inquiries were made during the year in order to ascertain the extent to which the sanitary staffs
of metropolitan boroughs had been affected by the war. It was found that there was approximately
a depletion of some 16 per cent. in these staffs, and the Council called the attention of six Borough
Councils to the serious extent of the depletion, and suggested that if male substitutes could not be