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London County Council 1924

[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 1924.

TABLE II. COUNTY OF LONDON. Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1924.

Sanitary Authority.Cowsheds.Slaughterhouses.Offensive Trades.Smoke nuisances.Underground rooms.Overcrowding.Houses let in lodgings.Common lodging houses.Cleansing of persons and rooms.Water supplyMilk. shops.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.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*––15013–1122130Periodical–145520903325–33946372123916817
Battersea12233324119178623385125–32013115,0635,968171283691902582511,904
Bermondsey––––133836–1––––223446–385372–2,225–202589 1251255092,420
Bethnal Green1251317182593––4720207786–74051–1,780–2396571823653591,206
Camberwell154154731182151––383287261–5438753,205141–4161,256 3314678822,245
Chelsea__–340––166–––55–––21724609428–75145 607290200
Deptford––23621579116––99289578–41,089–1,7492,072–1553681431702895
Finsbury––210322119662211119093,929–24705–852154181 SI125247348
Fulham––285––222187––4040–––287733,61676105167 216196346983
Greenwich4651713309–5522247247–29015712165181021381381421801,145
Hackney810417286135098132301–605463––4313501,270658–3181,629 248262172880
Hammersmith––7277––7515102235132,49914–1292401,5474513861,667 1311358735,732
Hampstead––216––21–131377–––––4910377089194, 681215951,380
Holborn––15––5104488335899512141,093124–535127149 831793802,419
Islington4341477886518029116613131,0123,680523793104,61491605741,030 23814663618,397
Kensington––5294––277131656331312,90411,0814084161304,2611,5726561756921632838711,630
Lambeth3911154448230141151138332724,464–4415––3901144482,668 16549511132
Lewisham6388216––211515115454338–––––––147330 ––Not statedNot stated
Paddington144138––1441512218151,4046,0412931652012847100340 1632533931,502
Poplar103796224245548––24241,453?–64991361,680469–167385 941654021,080
St. Marylebone22631512536899944331,11511,798–67634,3872,916750271433561202153471,155
St. Pancras23061402877193724––21142,3653,68132781,1725,2441,51485211957 324402Not stated5,147
Shoreditch219238226676103––44193051,917–4281––355–2561,665127293289867
Southwark––5572936711––62621,272772–222,7588423,25214,871253422,090 1571625161,843
Stepney2469117363194342101069532,6453,7953263,7734495911,15824411,583 2444214941,552
Stoke Newington––455––_6022––44–––––193723814755 2529256485
Wandsworth110910531183827275–1414292932–512615–47012566753383931,0492,166
Westminster14––––2,30940427206491,1204,062–41,54061812151274941,730 1482405,5002,041
Woolwich955832––104–7824849394433–13409272,261159–85257 2267962601,055

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Note.–In the columns above a da3h signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses, licensed number, 175; lodgers, 17,974 ; visits–day, 10,263, night, 478 ; prosecutions, nil.
Seamen's lodging houses, licensed number, 38; Bermondsey, 7 ; Deptford, 1; Poplar, 8; Stepney, 22 ; lodgers, 1,128. \ isits—day, 1,086 ; night, 97; prosecutions, 4 ;
penalties and costs, £14 3s.
Prosecutions—Smoke Nuisances : Poplar, 1; Islington, 2 ; Stepney, 2 ; Battersea, 3 ; Fulham, 2.
Water Supply: Hammersmith, 1; Paddington, 1 ; Kensington, 3 ; St. Pancras, 9; Fulham, 1.
Overcrowding: Shoreditch, 1; Paddington, 1 ; Fulham, 3 ; Kensington, 1 ; Battersea, 2. * Continuous supervision during slaughtering.
Milk-shops: St. Pancras 3; Woolwich, I; Battersea, 1. Ice f ream Premises: Bethnal Green, 1. Islington, 1.
Underground Rooms : Islington, 4. Offensive Trades : Hackney, 2; Shoreditch, 1 ; Stepney, 1.