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London County Council 1928

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

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Table: COUNTY OF LONDON.Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1928.

COUNTY OF LONDON.

Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1928.

Sanitary Authority.Cowsheds.Slaughterhouses .Offensive Trades.Smoke nuisances.Common lodging houses.Cleansing of persons and rooms.Water supply.Milk-shops.Ice cream premises.Restaurants and Eating Houses.
No. licensed.No. of inspections.No. licensed.No. of inspections.No. authorised.No. of inspections.Observations.Intimations.Complaints.Notices.Houses licensed.Authorised lodgers.Pcrsops.Rooms or premises.Tenement houses extra supply.No. on register.No. of inspections.No. on register.No. of inspections.No. of places.No. of inspections.
AdultsChildren.After infectious diseases.For vermin.
City of London_____16514—1455681,044all. all_277| 27445398571,328
Battersea_—.21393315721—32012213,76973517214203417151159103185
Bermondsey————16636353331,195103—1,7814392196594107109146596
Bethnal Green1158220898342——6395345131,122461—255835160310193577
Camberwell111220310331351410—5438693,5593,451246243801,565125306157237
Chelsea——255——5243—217279953451531759626307680
Deptford——276635————71,193—2,0121,63370318335517621953110
Finsbury——112231438313324709—669216215118586126207265
Fulham——2268——41999—28716———2001533136520139702
Greenwich173453850624—290148118952131321441441525675
Hackney3501551218361,185385044313583,0502,35128363811,412251489143153
Hammersmith——7553210325211292922,6461,0851928881,470162195175467 .
Hampstead——157——6—1———81,0772,0886830631808210167130
Holborn—12——4325112873143—4467031299644223244405
Islington161375119771141443222803155,2133,605395643080823882454530
Kensington—529814032094. 252132123,8391,12754085149719931301431,125
Lambeth1127126448353535—3473——13,150531726353,811215862200335
Lewisham148651——33442———1,32571—133345150185112290
Paddington——224315834341523165152—75—107421170215113184
Poplar418789433919271534262569733181101112651281973131,354
St. Marylebone127187370483—9—47563,6342,304745446310736070146314816
St. Pancras——415913724262762781,1594,9111,233295220287699319240380292
Shoreditch226117392735—4282461,19118572581,246123337190510
Southwark——49641111331212,240928 :3,1915,8281,309163551,7831503003421,368
Stepney Stoke Newington2089115539513924307223,026589-2,58949233931,176262527335564
—465——1027———11,47737211226812726522853
Wandsworth1'1266102104341131169274—4,8734371254873455230278849
Westminster—————— ]6402136161,7503771,061563263303455555760582
Woolwich896725332110365391,9611,04840—9657512931760242

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Note.—In the columns above a dasli signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses licensed by the Council (i.e., excluding those in the City of London) number, 157; lodgers, 16,281; visits—day, 7,335, night, 242;
prosecutions, 2; penalties and costs, £4 2s. Od.
Seamen's lodging houses, licensed humber, 27 ; Poplar, 5 ; Stepney, 22; lodgers, 1,044. Visits—day, 813; night, 32; prosecutions, 5; penalties and
costs, £21 7s. Od.
Prosecutions—Smoke Nuisances: Finsbury, 1, penalty and costs, £5 5s.; Hackney, 1, penalty and costs, £1 Is.; Poplar, 2, (1 conviction) £10 penalty—
£2 4s. Od. costs. Water Supply : Hammersmith, 2; Kensington, 1; Lambeth, 4; Poplar, 1; St. Pancras, 2. Milkshops: St. Pancras, 1. Ice Cream
Premises : Stepney, 2; Bestaurants and Eating Houses : Stepney, 2.