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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 34 (continued)
| Borough | Cowsheds | Slaughterhouses | Offensive trades | Smoke nuisances | Common lodging houses | Cleansing of persons and rooms | Water supply | Dairies | 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 | No. of inspections | 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 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 112 | – | 15 | – | 1 | 2 | 271 | 2,237 | 46 | 86 | – | 51 | 76 | 71 | 150 | 582 | 1,620 |
| Battersea | – | – | 1 | 35 | 2 | 3 | 165 | 2 | 7 | – | – | – | 226 | 2,238 | 729 | 392 | 5 | 126 | 288 | 111 | 193 | 173 | 341 |
| Bermondsey | – | – | – | – | 9 | 63 | 260 | – | 12 | – | 2 | 86 | 292 | 1,363 | 29 | 451 | – | 109 | 315 | 131 | 97 | 110 | 464 |
| Bethnal Green | – | – | 5 | 70 | 1 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | 1 | 6 | 53 | 11 | 29 | 970 | – | 18 | 24 | 130 | 334 | 131 | 460 |
| Camberwell | 1 | – | 3 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 58 | – | 30 | – | 1 | 39 | 125 | 1,964 | 1,108 | 1,079 | 12 | 184 | 213 | 358 | 642 | 279 | 486 |
| Chelsea | – | – | – | – | – | – | 27 | – | 13 | – | – | – | 158 | 452 | 121 | 225 | 22 | 11 | 87 | 57 | 181 | 140 | 353 |
| Deptford | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | 3 | 20 | – | – | – | 1 | 5 | 469 | 1,123 | 276 | 533 | – | 112 | 208 | 168 | 418 | 95 | 100 |
| Finsbury | – | – | – | – | 3 | 86 | 138 | – | 14 | – | 1 | 27 | 158 | 1,168 | 220 | 451 | 9 | 12 | 112 | 105 | 172 | 169 | 221 |
| Fulham | – | – | – | – | – | – | 479 | – | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | 353 | 856 | 10 | 48 | 502 | 177 | 559 | 153 | 620 |
| Greenwich | – | – | – | – | \– | – | 53 | – | 7 | – | – | – | 52 | 714 | 413 | 32 | – | 8 | 20 | 188 | 196 | 163 | 492 |
| Hackney | – | – | – | – | 5 | 10 | 1,245 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 173 | 1,083 | 783 | 548 | – | 32 | 390 | 281 | 517 | 236 | 254 |
| Hammersmith | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | 163 | 9 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 311 | 1,667 | 115 | 893 | 14 | 71 | 425 | 153 | 314 | 199 | 468 |
| Hampstead | – | – | – | – | – | – | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | 27 | 17 | 509 | 162 | 21 | • | 195 | * | 255 | * | 440 |
| Holborn | – | – | – | – | – | – | 143 | – | 10 | – | 2 | 6 | 133 | 42 | 65 | 178 | 19 | 3 | 17 | 65 | 88 | 535 | 1,872 |
| Islington | – | – | 6 | 16 | 10 | 318 | 103 | 9 | 39 | – | – | – | 230 | 1,246 | 517 | 910 | 87 | 394 | 1,072 | 474 | 922 | 592 | 1,898 |
| Kensington | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | 256 | 1,908 | 418 | 954 | 34 | 162 | 370 | 245 | 256 | 213 | 505 |
| Lambeth | – | – | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 74 | 2 | 23 | 1 | – | – | 165 | 66 | 899 | 2,581 | 18 | 28 | 39 | 563 | 117 | 218 | 444 |
| Lewisham | – | – | 2 | 7 | – | – | 5 | – | 5 | – | – | – | 76 | 1,215 | 757 | 254 | – | 159 | 222 | 333 | 848 | 296 | 421 |
| Paddington | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 20 | 299 | 37 | 375 | 1,574 | 71 | 9 | 278 | 160 | 219 | 139 | 791 |
| Poplar | – | – | 3 | – | 3 | 5 | 219 | 5 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 39 | 78 | 785 | 339 | 730 | 1 | 13 | 108 | 149 | 296 | 109 | 225 |
| St. Marylebone | – | – | 1 | 10 | – | – | 152 | 3 | 24 | – | 2 | 51 | 506 | 856 | 325 | 517 | 34 | 160 | 189 | 148 | 192 | 852 | 1,109 |
| St. Pancras | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 57 | – | 22 | – | – | – | 833 | 2,016 | 775 | 598 | 29 | 310 | 589 | 316 | 769 | 850 | 1,107 |
| Shoreditch | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 424 | – | 9 | – | – | – | 17 | 14 | 210 | 842 | 27 | 84 | 248 | 117 | 397 | 302 | 898 |
| Southwark | – | – | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 83 | 1 | 19 | – | 6 | 30 | 1,208 | 3,033 | 313 | 2,307 | – | 171 | 409 | 175 | 285 | 360 | 748 |
| Stepney | 1 | 1 | – | – | 16 | 339 | 228 | 3 | 42 | – | 4 | 103 | 435 | 18 | 371 | 1,096 | – | 206 | 356 | 240 | 372 | 913 | 924 |
| Stoke Newington | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20 | 739 | 196 | 286 | – | 38 | 208 | 63 | 127 | 50 | 198 |
| Wandsworth | – | – | 3 | 38 | – | – | 59 | 5 | 10 | – | – | – | 224 | 121 | 1,405 | 336 | 8 | 228 | 1,508 | 623 | 1,879 | 494 | 1,452 |
| Westminster, C. of | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1,374 | 34 | 85 | 3 | 3 | 55 | 464 | 468 | 524 | 1,212 | 14 | 114 | 282 | 173 | 119 | 3,000 | 3,652 |
| Woolwich | – | – | 2 | † | 2 | 15 | 450 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 147 | 1,532 | 467 | 1,052 | – | 108 | 354 | 284 | 461 | 546 | 697 |
| Total | 2 | 1 | 34 | 213 | 69 | 876 | 6,132 | 84 | 465 | 12 | 31 | 493 | 7,406 | 28,133 | 12,687 | 22,105 | 435 | 3,058 | 9,104 | 6,302 | 11,375 | 12,125 | 23,260 |
Note:—In the columns above a dash signifies a NIL return ; * information not available; † daily supervision (one slaughterhouse not in use); and ‡ included in inspections under Public Health Act.
Seamen's Lodging Houses: Total 7—Poplar 2 (48 inspections), Stepney 5 (65 inspections).
Prosecutions: Dairies—St. Marylebone 1, St. Pancras 3, Westminster 1; Smoke Nuisance—Poplar 1; Restaurants—St. Marylebone 3, Stepney 37 (involving 7 premises), Westminster I;
Water Supply—Paddington 3, St. Marylebone 1, St. Pancras 4 ; Ice-cream Premises'— Islington 1.