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London County Council 1936

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

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Table: Table 58. County of London-Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1936.

Table 58. County of London-Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1936.

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 inspectionsPersonsRooms or premisesTenement houses extra supplyNo. on registerNo. of inspectionsNo. on registerNo. of inspectionsNo. of placesNo. of inspections
AdultsChildrenAfter infectious diseasesFor vermin
City of London------480-27-141231,284129--7411542681,012724
Battersea--212334132312692654,5241,92047512119438220217126313
Bermondsey--–-13121127141083651343,3831,2912,28125264647141340134227
Bethnal Green85611285128241-141732029643925-35462818030599354
Camberwell192951121193103032136655,0122,2271,542115571,253375539205310
Chelsea-–112--10-3-220751327337627317235357065
Deptford-–2243729234--652482,580725192-25534818911169387
Finsbury--110223101975234211223131,163200205186612131378274636
Fulham--147--5325-11329-774342-10745322165117190
Greenwich36231922254151i4111,728608114616827012113583291
Hackney367800010621,438366112454233,8062,498864191271,051313537206248
Hammersmith--4146-–8322511132872,8407483549175987189170184578
Hampstead-----–2025---526181,9607464105236116289120
Holborn--12--137565222112-257140-13718960110479574
Islington--84301231132245524579816,6562,898361219256877494460605798
Kensington--227--22212-31058864,7721,02748077138565247387175648
Lambeth--3116349784646-3156343-3,9412,311115331,1894041,211246467
Lewisham18----56510---11,0021,559156-273545182468121285
Paddington--i3022451925-383542016791135311184159126130
Poplari23741546941233151711053,6531,850177275903372032661,0622,043
St. Marylebone--1161201621010-2381,1341,27356159815159261100120377436
St Pancras-–312424841895-i82,1956,8951,149268103187893344266.286909
Shoreditchi13--1116625-432216774274703168331902811241452
Southwark-–4341320815111-151242,0475,2979421,513304011,9112691,805390478
Stepney19130--48592491363631831621112,1191,68342281,556368526342465
Stoke Newington-–315--19115----2,2093251389102221739737101
Wandsworth1451,2272416414293--25171,94516352037156541,411480512
Westminster------7281978251863087125425912393541112341,4262,149
Woolwich5794161437312-93872,3791,0111,2561373278221270170424

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Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return
Seamen's lodging houses, 15—Bermondsey, 3 (18 inspections); Poplar, 2 (45 inspections); Stepney, 10 (107 inspections).
Prosecutions.—Ice Cream—Stepney, 4. Milkshops—Islington, 1 ; Stepney, 6. Seamen's lodging houses—Poplar, 2. Smoke nuisances—Bermondsey, 2.
Water supply—St. Pancras, 1.