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London County Council 1935

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

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Table: Table 67. County of London.— Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1935.

Table 67.

County of London.— Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1935.

Sanitary authorityCowshedsSlaughterhousesOffensive tradesSmoke nuisancesCommon lodging housesCleansing of persons and roomsWater supplyMilk-shopsIce cream premisesRestaurants and eating houses
No. licensedNo. of inspectionsNo. licensedNo. of inspectionsNo. authorisedNo. of inspectionsObservationsIntimationsComplaintsNoticesHouses licensedNo. of inspectionsPersonaRooms or premisesTenement houses extra supplyNo. on registerNo. of inspectionsNo. on registerNo. of inspectionsNo. of placesNo. of inspections
AdultsChildrenAfter infectious diseasesFor vermin
City of London——————432119—14731,2497315—7312925251,004848
Battersea——212737205513691943,7911,65141120314445229191125240
Bermondsey————151032354—388943,5661,2721,68352290727145293135441
Bethnal Green856112251736214244542523860629—32668917631693328
Camberwell1111101113215162014141514,7891,9981,23285171,336383409204337
Chelsea——114——20—6—2227527263502—7116635367069
Deptford——22157209———677601,418896222—24732017018972261
Finsbury——18727521664032109137785552323173432135187277309
Fulham——190——5136—17525—1,001355—11053821310592188
Greenwich3422902431113—16281,68870438313117526112814074174
Hackney344967611221,548143013553303,4362,00883324580808327377188246
Hammersmith——4155——158161441232052,42778749411631,040183204198578
Hampstead——————8—4———418201,236109529216794207422
Holborn——111——8254—433131—2609721522072526309464
Islington—84611217561649324344646,25159668228399690480253598774
Kensington——2———61414—3675454,55699752796140521221453170754
Lambeth——3140352804242—3180243—4,416846735571,4414551,480258479
Lewisham136397——324111——21,0341,530159—132276190201135239
Paddington——230015029282347401817815613025618313013258
Poplar2268514405891025881183,0621,08463411113472372708851,999
St. Marylebone——1141222551010—3772,7302,8984301,0391015026093126224426
St Pancras——3205251337121041152,7625,88087822598426636321291297554
Shoreditch216——1530—2—4399—87013160280894168291238473
Southwark——4302414378224—27662,3052,9389931,4831334381,6302538044181,807
Stepney19128——53261155825—1729618021,3091,2103704912376597330459
Stoke Newington——34—214211————2,3952562236109254667935107
Wandsworth1145917——11022332——15982,05764212126126366911821,125
Westminster——————8302247—518361562255694422937489981,4111.465
Woolwich865416141616—971132,4211,1091,481474211205265186380

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Note.-In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Prosecutions.—Seamen's lodging houses—Bermondsey, 2 (11 inspections); Poplar, 3 (41 inspections); Stepney, 10 (256 inspections). Cowsheds—Stepney, 3. Smoke
nuisances—Islington, 2. Common lodging houses—Paddington, 2; Islington, 1. Water supply to tenement houses—St. Pancras, 1; Paddington, 1; Hammersmith, 2;
Shoreditch, 1; Islington, 1. Milk-shops—Poplar, 1; Stepney, 16. Ice-cream premises—Stepney, 9: Wandsworth, 1; Islington, 2. Restaurants and eating houses—Paddington,
1 ; Westminster, 1.