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London County Council 1949

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

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Table: Table 36 County of London—Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1949

Table 36 County of London—Statistics of the administrative work carried out by the Metropolitan Borough Councils during the year 1949

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 places|No. of inspections
AdultsChildrenAfter infectious diseasesFor vermin
City of London——————7—2—112042,52841100—4461701645761,655
Battersea——14922133—11—1‡102862,773827334113333386272158311
Bermondsey————1161246———2492111,33568396111042669310856379
Bethnal Green————111———18751151947—12353712136196301
Camberwell153135183111941162322,2381,2201,31926174307323499251452
Chelsea——————53—19———47516117320193855389888234
Deptford——22253—3—142611,259330526—6616312132490369
Finsbury————36070—10—119****187421299159159285
Fulham——————210215—————5351,0505750487139836159582
Greenwich——————120—19———2041,09834229358186163297162725
Hackney——1—531,38717174112401,4118105841232631262509248383
Hammersmith——34——866121——4901,59594643580280207375217159
Hampstead——————19—9———37185411621861159141301193455
Holborn——————146—13—26981069315385364502346521,965
Islington——65612148102454———3651,4275957371074081,0984571,0215601,299
Kensington——————12—————3542,6604501,40122157429207224213439
Lambeth——1193654321———260917842,71810201160534131212398
Lewisham——28——19—7———1631,649943326—185174279280233335
Paddington————11521———145228633691,64046116375149275141707
Poplar——3—3111237323245911,110281687—12231010811471148
St. Marylebone——116——1521620121174841,148814575341592461392758451,099
St. Pancras——2———121—29———8832,316771887182968142761,028839973
Shoreditch————13398341——43422771,0872480402117367176757
Southwark——1473034—14—6391,1203,3753822,079—179487145423284355
Stepney19——16161193518—496338434261,200778211479215489426685
Stoke Newington——————36—6———45985157269_361276413250192
Wandsworth——356——64292——28197945242111962,2255561,8464771,623
Westminster——————720480—3453746306361,39881144161511623,0003,873
Woolwich——2t2103629—2161831,826400369—105421238596309823
Total21431227745174,6498245216315177,59732,33013,29922,1781,2363,65511,9045,54811,90010,94121.961

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Note : In the columns above a dash signifies a nil return ; †daily supervision; *information not available and ‡closed in June, 1949.
Seamen's Lodging Houses, 8—Bermondsey 1 (1 inspection); Poplar 3 (54 inspections); Stepney 4 (76 inspections).
Prosecutions : Ice Cream—Lewisham 1, Westminster 1 ; Milkskops— Lewisham 2; Smoke Nuisances—Camberwell 1, St. Marylebone I.
Restaurants—St. Marylebone 6, Stepney 21, Westminster 6 ; Water Supply—Camberwell 2, Hackney 4, St. Marylebone 3.