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London County Council 1937

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

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Table: Table 70 County of London—Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1937

Table 70 County of London—Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1937

Sanitary authorityCowshedsSlaughterhousesOffensive tradesSmoke nuisancesCommon lodging housesCleansing of persons and roomsWater supplyMilk-shopsice cream premisesRestaurants am eating houses
No. licensedNo. of inspections 'No. 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——————462—21—131231,0313231_8112757641,029571
Battersea——1993817391242443894,2561,69654425120522231330130343
Bermondsey————14373692623451313,2147511,09125260674148379131117
Bethnal Green760216927529129—434348501651,650—36780717933197399
Camberwell1727692981422—1601035,5791,9511,320185621,158406681202582
Chelsea—17——_6_3—2122751528036917517044506570
Deptford——223371012———549812,580595159—22632814917145390
Finsbury——111036051795203211235593730915517163213522234126
Fulham——————3715—14395830385—10648523294122110
Greenwich——33041945316—1351,7455622202419435014320998417
Hackney2658563104012982950112266193,7511,774832101251,184340495211198
Hammersmith——380——5974—_1132922,9357276230178800169246195497
Hampstead————2058———786051,42975111071431114411042
Holborn——13——215I9_316102—434140—15933670745211,072
Islington——830512135 -692233217425556,2372,173173289240878480701544889
Kensington——122—19_8—31463044,9831,4511,17886137462300372183594
Lambeth——3112351814343—3175318—1,8731,858195041,1314071,222227460
Lewisham145335——24818291———1,2221,24613027131176364402123254
Paddington——1322——142g131249514_121156139588198316163460
Poplarl1973248338419141321504,1201,5431,88318853552122671,0981,691
St. Marylebone——112114186427—234——53727821182250105125386442
St. Puncras——3144275262562162,1975,923989212684261,2463415573061,078
Shoreditch111——175864—4294413834155123288729185287231417
Southwark——4229310221114—131492,2035,547809955303941,540222310342386
Stepney17128——513384386672116258165—1,1471,040176171,273366563385567
Stoke Newington——37—1733————2,5403219513101283838533107
Wandsworth16511842620924302——317572,0762004199510683915533638
Westminster——————52224362516641164561312032294391321811,4471,601
Woolwich5464162518—101965262,7071,0421,377—71310247250172041

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Note.—In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return.
Seamen's lodging houses, 15—Bermondsey, 3 (8 inspections) ; Poplar, 2 (79 inspections); Stepney, 10 (108 inspections).
Prosecutions.— Ice cream—Stepney, 2. Milkshops—Bethnal Green, 1 ; Hackney, 2; Islington, 3; Stepney, 14. Smoke nuisances—Islington, 1.
Restaurants—Westminster, 1. Water supply—Paddington, 2; Poplar, 1; St. Pancras, 1.