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London County Council 1931

[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 1931.

COUNTY OF LONDON.—Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1931.

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——————-102216—14771161,029All——27821542901530
Battersea——2—3324141431872833,8881,51421323273594176301179238
Bermondsey————13471553—31,103536411,0855995290641137200144629
Bethnal Green11462208910722——15359621211,186259—268734161275192622
Camberwell11521661035190122335430764,7032,937317254451,787259323181264
Chelsea——215——2126—21642665620425727310525317061
Deptford——2278610182——61,16651,93395080—216256136120194258
Finsbury——110244462419324701526081451216124874181214290
Fulham——279——20617—2841441,17687—15310113129098170
Greenwich14334312614201290111,0207503921061411291446260
Hackney3211248318431,334252544307853,0801,5816012456779203326194187
Hammersmith——7326335772511112801972,63173343751171,075127256148636
Hampstead——17——2—2———1493939816166124541286082
Holborn——15——26581321283544918252178—1301272554275505
Islington——13524164611822154420708905,4083,0579689413853292168476571
Kensington——320715128121—52593413,9431,521367771514461401801411,277
Lambeth1126477448555555—3448——5,174736486213,106256351214241
Lewisham1471,529——2051262——228141,36493—129344161192116329
Paddington——2201153197213—3234249no rcrd73138118397127165123151
Poplar3177417749315—6636742,7821,80323131052981322628131,842
St. Marylebone——158390262417—47393,5293,3589114811112331176130340672
St. Pancras——417322554076962781,2146,2941,014148120338657233232289615
Shoreditch226172879464—428410—98026132871,195109233203570
Southwark——41054166411202,3531,6932,9552,173604153611,7871765283761,504
Stepney19118——5419823229174223,375326322,46627864131,588270333361470
Stoke Newington——4551131—2————1,4182891312847440373260
Wandsworth11257992772336———165264,565620134568651211326241
Westminster——————8541049261,795399428613111919426876421,2121,318
Woolwich516152014120142—9318182,01689549294393166272165378

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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 151; lodgers, 16,703. Visits—day, 5,674, night, 170.
Seamen's lodging houses, number licensed, 22 ; Poplar, 3 ; Stepney, 19 ; lodgers, 861. Visits—day, 475 ; night, 22.
Prosecutions—Smoke nuisances.—Camberwell, 1, £5 5s. Od. costs ; Islington, 1, £5 5s. 0d. costs. Water Supply.—Hammersmith, 3; Islington, 1.
Ice cream premises.—Hammersmith, 3. Milkshops.—Islington, 9; City of London, 11; Battersea, 6; St. Pancras, 3; Stepney, 1.