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London County Council 1923

[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 carried out during the year 1923.
Sanitary Authority.
Cowsheds.
Slaughterhouses.
Offensive
Trades.
Smoke
nuisances.
Underground
rooms.
Overcrowding.
Houses let In
lodgings.
Common
lodging
houses.
Cleansing of persons
and rooms.
Water
supply
Milkshops.
Ice
cream
premises.
Other food
places.
No. licensed.
No. of inspections.
No. licensed.
No. of inspections.
No. licensed.
No. of inspections.
Observations.
Complaints.
Notices.
No. illegally
occupied.
No. closed or otherwise
remedied.
Instances found.
No. remedied.
No. on register.
No. of inspections.
Prosecutions.
Houses licensed.
Authorise d
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
*


119
10
?
1
1
2
2
132
Periodical

1
455
19
866
370

334
751
274
229
875
1,034
Battersea
1
2
2
303
2
4
178
47
35
2
2
13
13
85
255
-
3
201
212
4,949
4,592
29
130
563
162
331
242
1,778
Bermondsey
-
-
-
13
37
31
13
6




223
446

3
853
35
-
1,993
3
194
586
131
109
370
2,251
Bethnal Green
12
54
3
23
-
-
6


7
5
29
22
209
746

7
405
93
-
2,656

234
751
168
356
205
755
Camberwell
1
5
5
142
5
30
122
17
16


35
23
290
169

5
438
76
4,201
135

415
,220
323
458
284
725
Cholsea
-
-
3
79
-
-
11
3
-
2
1
13
7
-
-
-
2
172
7
599
832
3
72
168
59
81
132
236
Deptford
-
-
2
60
2
27
23
7
2
-
-
8
8
273
546
-
4
1,088
1,441
1,832
155
440
134
306
121
501
Finsbury
-
-
2
38
2
16
31
8
5
1
1
8
8
906
4,365

1
98
4
135
1
151
179
102
124
228
306
Fulham
-
-
2
99
-
-
122
9
7
241

16
16



2
87
14
13
3,191
51
78
249
216
393
120
1,033
Greenwich
4
7
5
25
1
3
23
11

1
1
7
4
247
109

2
90
9
868

15
103
165
133
145
185
1,171
Hackney
9
112
19
318
14
62
632
26
28
3
3
62
6
463
-

4
313
116
4,480
575
6
308
1,746
218
234
163
185
Hammersmith
-
-
7
258
-
145
13
12

-
29
15
2,486
71

1
292


63
14
84
1,901
129
219
?
3,363
Hampstead
-
-
2
20
-
-
20
5
1
21
21
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
23
1,017
36
48
89
136
68
136
634
2,790
Holborn


1
3
-
-
411
10
10
6
6
9
9
587
850
4
14
1,093
125
-
41
127
248
81
240
3 75
2,652
Islington
4
35
17
907
8
52
215
32
18
6
6
17
17
1,012
8,710
6
23
805
24
4,886
4,633
58
630
823
242
83
6 32
17,655
Kensington

-
6
267
-
-
382
7
1
32
32
31
31
2,428
7,903
14
8
416
154
3,758
1,302
203
175
724
158
290
851
1,124
Lambeth
3
9
11
132
4
48
184
12
92
3
3
44
44
372
4,464
-
4
415
-
-
372
144
419
2,514
165
495
11
132
Lewisham
9
60
9
92


13




51
51
3
36

1





147
312


Not
Not
Paddington
1
4
4
163
-
-
356
9
1
4
3
5
5
1,404
6,220
45
3
165
3
1
290
9
96
336
160
205
stated
421
stated
1,669
Poplar
10
38
9
56
6
23
?
36
31


19
19
Not
stated

7
1,018
61
1,629
425

151
480
101
184
334
1,320
St. Marylebone
2
30
3
142
2
60
817
8
8
9
9
5
5
1,115
9,832
3
5
763
3,900
2,833
6S9
25
139
361
129
2C0
300
1,542
St. Pancras
2
25
7
158
2
66
915
38
10
3
2
42
33
2,365
4,749
7
2
78
1,078
5,835
1,130
11
213
931
294
360
Not
stated
4,843
Shoreditch
2
25
2
56
4
13
106
23
11
2
2
48
12
296
1,447
21
5
324


584
7
225
1,822
117
295
266
913
Southwark


5
55
2
8
44
16
11


92
92
1,302
823

22
2,758
759
3,439
20,371
10
318
1,617
169
165
366
1,325
Stepney
24
63
1
5
6
25
312
57
33
17
15
85
85
2,645
3,398

26
3,764
519
1,067
1,466
3
442
1,403
231
420
434
1,407
Stoke Newington
-
-
4
94
52
1
1

-
-
-
259
259
-
-
-
-
506
156
-
69
69
24
28
256
516
Wandsworth
3
17
9
166
3
55
56
22
22
2
-
?
22
292
378
-
5
123
103
6
398
-
249
601
352
349
997
1,405
Westminster
1
4
-
-
-
-
600
12
8
3
1
13
14
1,144
2,849
-
4
1,539
103
938
161
36
482
1,522
148
240
5,500
2,317
Woolwich
11
40
8
29
-
-
37
13
-
13
-
204
31
425
285
-
13
402
19
2,011
221
-
80
23:
188
557
221
1,043
Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses, licensed number, 176; lodgers, 18,155; visits—day, 9,416, night, 386; prosecutions, 4; penalties and costs, £16 10s.
Seamen's lodging houses, licensed number, 37; Bermondsey, 7 ; Deptford, 1 ; Poplar, 9; Stepney, 20 ; lodgers, 1,089. Visits—day, 1,275; night, 79; prosecutions, 3 ;
penalties and costs, £40.
Prosecutions—Smoke Nuisances: Poplar, 1 ; Hackney, 2 ; St. Pancras, 1 ; Lambeth, 1 ; Westminster, 1 ; Islington, 2; Stepney, 1; Battersea, 6.
Water Supply : Southwark, 6; Hammersmith, 1 ; Paddington, 4 ; Kensington, 2.
Overcrowding: Southwark, 2 ; Paddington, 1 ; St. Pancias, 1 ; Fultam, 1; Stepney, 1. *Continuous supervision during slaughtering.
Mill-shops : St. Pancras 1 ; St. Marylebone, 1 ; Stepney, 1 ; Permcndscy, 28, Ice Cream Promics: Petlnal Grean, 1. Slavghtcrloiscs: Haclmy, 1.