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Sanitary
officers.
The subjoined table shows the number of sanitary officers and health visitors
employed by the sanitary authorities in London:—
Sanitary area.
Sanitary inspectors.
Male.
Female.
Health visitors.
| Whole time.
Part time.
Whole time.
Part time.
City of London
24
1
—
—
-
Battersea
11
-
2
6
2
Bermondsey
10
—
—
8
—
Bethnal Green
9
—
—
10
-
Camberwell
11
2
—
3
-
Chelsea
4
—
—
1
-
Deptford
7
—
—
6
1
Finsbury
9
1
—
3
—
Fulham
10
1
—
5
—
Greenwich
5
1
—
5
1
Hackney
18
2
—
11
—
Hammersmith
9
1
—
3
-
Hampstead
7
1
—
3
—
Holborn
3
—
1
1
1
Islington
18
2
—
7
-
Kensington
11
7
—
7
-
Lambeth
15
—
2
4
2
Lewisham
9
1
-
8
—
Paddington
9
2
—
2
—
Poplar
10
1
—
6
—
St. Marylebone
11
—
3
3
3
St. Pancras
14
2
4
2
4
Shoreditch
12
—
-
5
-
Southwark
12
1
—
10
—
Stepney
18
—
—
11
—
Stoke Newington
3
—
—
3
—
Wandsworth
11
—
2
4
2
Westminster, City of
10
1
—
5
—
Woolwich
10
1
2
6
2
London County, 1923
308
28
16
148
18
Dressar of
fur skins.
At the end of 1923, 42 sets of premises were registered as subject to the by-laws
regulating the business of a dresser of fur-skins.
Poultry
slaughtering
During 1923 the Minister of Health confirmed the draft by-laws made under
section 19 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, regulating the business of a
slaughterer of poultry, and detailed inspections of the premises (numbering some
120) which will fall within the province of the bv-laws. are now in progress.
Tuberculosis.
Under the Council's scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis the total number
of beds actually in use on 31st December, 1923, was as follows:—
Institutions. Adults. Children. Total.
Ex-service. Civilian.
Metropolitan Asylums Board 133 796 512 1,441
Voluntary 218 311 195 724
Total 351 1,107 707 2,165
5,123 applications for institutional treatment of adult patients were received,
viz:—
First applications. Applications for further treatment.
Males (Ex-service men) 373 Males (Ex-service men) 748
„ (Civilians) 1,730 „ (Civilians) 381
Females1,561 Females 330
3,664 1,459—Total 5,123
Of these 762 (including 185 examined at County Hall) were not accepted for
treatment under the Council's scheme ; 1,460 patients were examined at the County