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London County Council 1917

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

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TABLE II. COUNTY OF LONDON. Statistics of the administrative work carri^l out during the year 1917.

Sanitary Authority.Cowsheds.Slaughterhouses.Offensive Trades.Smoke nuisances.Underground rooms.Overcrowding.Housing of the Working Classes Acts.Houses let in lodgings.Common lodging houses.Cleansing of persons and rooms.Water supply.Milk- shops.Ice cream premises.Other food places.
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 ot London**14314l11493__191473145581655801,48143110† 10281,575
Battersea263436316111121231311,66199611414921473202,62099541454891773131681,033
Bermondsey1_1281314567141410102236041,196481,90827381595669108,393
Bethnal Green126231513178252513662359648400133,4001220670951802541,134
Camberwell7109698274851512923954661265,1781385441,1212763383801,642
Chelsea__3932255_423687261599140283099140
Deptford_2555183343836381,2319433,78124735313674117222
Finsbury13259112131315513131515159082,56432288156165244223223
Fulham__2508444222229816312215965205496946
Greenwich .. .. .\.31251039355181824725131211,10517112413710561_
Hackney1340197311121338384701855416682,09132881512929
Hammersmith__7294_207312122,6936003387_98223067342341533,715
Hampstead_437382410104473444059707444413094205721094651,443
Holbom__1314434455623780171,24754£016511358494671,535
Islington329231,02578933426614261,13444,00117125869482352755910,308
Kensington155641636543221616326622,0657,4593126251311,8892961909781901326342,046
Lambeth6121418033649497676_3724465645.—465182551,530462428
Lewisham98611121191210101933341412130451471986060
Paddington.. . ,14523211913524963881,4045,3089322110541081334376302444
Poplar103411806351913_17117197721,2654,510179941854,7611,139•—2656987651263966
St. Marylebone518314212211661515551,1671,1581,2026101,1022,9143,0751,8662520319511763951,186
St. Pancras43012163246483191938381,625241,6232,3645,91755044134,098902262234811291114,331
Shoreditch310310110370706562834357464. —2721,7245989166525
Southwark3345573151164661261261,3492,32316273,173828,02472973621,321205144611,165
Stepney .....29655136245662316161881882741972365,37016212,8584561,793962124291,477
Stoke Newington14___1211326259137425146596387
Wandsworth114413239411034193262684466829285161855917621412725330309213287
Westminster14__1,23066443313133,0701,2403,640561,60664522191364866931552391,2003,413
Woolwich ... ..15399332212295954,2514443560918518172,7835689611246128153

Note.-—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses: Licensed number, 235; lodgers, 23,236: visits-day, 18,240, night, 652; prosecutions, nil.
Seamen's lodging houses: Licensed number, 7 in Bermondsey, 1 Deptford, 13 Poplar, 36 Stepney; lodgers, 1461; visits-day, 1,637, night, 142; convictions, 6; penalties, £97
Prosecutions: Milkshops—Chelsea 5, Hammersmith 2, Paddington 1, Bethnal Green, 1; water supply—St. Marylebone 3, Southwark 2; smoke nuisances—Stepney 1, Westminster
1 ; offensiv^rades—Bermondsey 4, Wandsworth 4 ; overcrowding—Bethnal Green 1.
* 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 made for an Inspector to be present,
t In addition to these premises, there are Cold Stores, Butchers' Shops and the Central Meat Market, all of which are kept under constant supervision.