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London County Council 1932

[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 1932.

COUNTY OF LONDON.—Statistics of the administrative work carried out during the year 1932.

Sanitary authority.Cow-sheda.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------166-19-14771201,395229-28623042942396
Battersea--21523221146231872483,7031,95022518280570172299175526
Bermondsey----136249138131,1038fi1,7721,1665876296511145155136531
Bethnal Green93922089142254-2535945791,081131-290828159297196609
Camberwell11321221034192111115430474,5582,97754754882,119272343188231
Chelsea--217--15510-216411661263281-737830377066
Deptford--225873314---61,166221,7281,111110-21621515893194355
Finsbury--19645762482247026121,1011222318124484174251374
Fulham--235--5741142841851,198122-10918413328998430
Greenwich1522111328612129078677802711051541341186980
Hackney3251152219541,2751839344081081,4452,1248223506381221381199251
Hammersmith--53552181001412312442792,46183348761301,285133236225752
Hampstead------512---18891,8163253781436711759108
Holborn--12--20938-12835332-21813421412472787291479
Islington--13424165713314115220724756,1462,789881056981,068336267503707
Kensington--2135--12443-52593533,8661,445271221524461692461481,755
Lambeth11254554484545451344844-5,6711,310354084,796311576238262
Lewisham147982--21419----31,3891,058128-132448124245114318
Paddington--2254154155-9-3234253no red.9154122413144150129174
Poplar323520829611114-66361432,7311,620283-1073651622978191,967
St. Marylebone--1402505921437-57543,1793,1477225612313526678125358450
St. Pancras--4110246405250-2781,2845,9981,013172114366754241254291682
Shoreditch230--1537113-42845-1,0823512293966120189222355
Southwark--42904163111192,3071,7053,1312,1551,442163881,3202094653631,013
Stepney19135--5532423219222213,118320101,97730364221,453273403365593
Stoke Newington--4622163------1,85530811711965145293463
Wandsworth195915221401038---154-3,3771953441583551466352254
Westminster------6291135261,79345155675427919338843451,2471,835
Woolwich41125201449112-9312122,1731,032303-85300180286167251

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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 150; lodgers, 16,487. Visits—day, 5,208; night, 120.
Seamen's lodging houses, number licensed, 20; Bermondsey, 2; Poplar, 4; Stepney, 14; lodgers, 927. Visits—day, 460; night, 28.
Prosecutions—Smoke nuisances.—Islington, 1, £5 5s. 0d. costs; and 1, £10 10s. Od. oosts. Water supply.—Bermondsey, 1; Hammersmith, 1;
St. Pancras, 1; Stepney, 1. Ice cream premises.—Islington, 1. Milkshops.—Bethnal Green, 1; Islington, 4; St. Pancras, 2. Restaurants and eating
A ouses.—Hammersmith, 1.