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London County Council 1930

[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 1930.

COUNTY OF LONDON. Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1930.

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.Persons.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.
Adults.Children.After infectious diseases.For vermin.
City of London————10165516—14771301,103all——27322399867993
Battersea——214033774131872633,9012,05727822240509168208116293
Bermondsey————134555135331,18849—2,1105899280568121191119553
Bethnal Green11312208911566451536669021,922324—260698151347187589
Camberwell12321811030178113235438554,0644,410435164301,456235239172198
Chelsea——230——26—5—21641275427321747012827457067
Deptford——22556124——471,19891,9811,81763—_16519012013045103
Finsbury——1106328444942470941,1922941713119772113229308
Fulham——2113——2913312843101,753169441535310421398153
Greenwich1433235535611290207291,0811921161391201296666
Hackney3331244416311,3042936543071382,3132,98041134281,400225292215191
Hammersmith——7367211792057—12801322,5801,20641501071,141111211164533
Hampstead——136——1—1———4692—311067178541166187
Holborn——13——10732—12835270—6001192126943054249384
Islington——1371618731281893221775785,4924,71310396420702250121461479
Kensington——420415115754262842933,7621,796349621544501361621411,017
Lambeth1126538448616161—3473——6,103702466143,069226843200217
Lewisham128785——141710—————1,870104—118296171165119303
Paddington——2306160186115—3234303norcrd9651115425126250120210
Poplar32075276611316566361121,1921,7469711182671122517921,986
St. Marylebone——150356297—6—47393,4723,3351,032391911332668120386859
St. Pancras——418013937142112781,2115,8641,736201118318735231257280694
Shoreditch2311528748113142846—1,999313527386396226189456
Southwark——411441881——202,3531,3013,3167,71690763671,7741767043761,504
Stepney19110115322126829663202,9195562152,79634963721,197246440347493
Stoke Newington——439——13119————1,3324441283665635273253
Wandsworth124673525476311——244154,5651,13543071,318497591322630
Westminster——————7551631261,750520380744712117731476441,1531,596
Woolwich7109621——40743—9318211,8631,11741194403122280154324

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Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Common lodging houses licensed by the Council (i.e., excluding those in the City of London) number 152 ; lodgers, 16,450. Visits—day, 6,953, night, 182.
Seamen's lodging houses, number licensed, 22 ; Poplar, 3 ; Stepney, 19 ; lodgers, 864. Visits—day, 629 ; night, 30 ;
Prosecutions—Smoke Nuisances. Battersea, 1, £4 4s. Od. costs; Bermondsev, 2, (40s. and £10); Camberwell, 1, £3 3s. Od. costs; Kensington, 1, £1 (Order
made prohibiting recurrence); Westminster, 2 (Orders made for abatements (1), £2 2s. Od. (1) £21 costs. Water Supply. Hammersmith, 4; St.
Pancras, 2; Westminster, 1. Ice Cream Premises. Stepney, 2. Milkshops. Islington, 1 ; City of London, 2; Battersea, 3.