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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 1952

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

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Table: Table 21 (continued)

Table 21 (continued)

BoroughCowshedsSlaughterhousesOffensive tradesSmoke nuisancesCommon lodging housesCleansing of persons and roomsWater supplyDairies and milk 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 diseaseFor vermin
City of London----_31515377-1-4713,00371133-4130791046711,937
Battersea--1-2220527---1761,994910257121402972333762001,076
Bermondsey---9604421512401891,28012371-11025015916061477
Bethnal Green----5882---1530829713-129465151369146359
Camberwell1-3185244-41-1451101,1607991,711120681414346354353
Chelsea------14-8---45770431824914447388301225721
Deptford----26----175261,165252479-1386321211410298
Finsbury----365108-5-115451,2734054542284321124120496252
Fulham------1,665-31---417206691-1214412091691591,056
Greenwich------11026---23958237430-85221216441139567
Hackney----581,45328148161407861,0623943206214328350241447
Hammersmith--2---5833---5021,197104713281597236649248817
Hampstead------116841---24132641481242197184274204782
Holborn------20219-2695-144156124119831645301967
Islington--57313451503361--196610649749473028615062596572,361
Kensington------1616---2591,4446091,640141623929026217199
Lambeth-_-_1229513151--258851,0082,3504264280626173236815
Lewisham--28--22-5---859001,365390-37253350564260656
Paddington------85-6113335712261,53862117468193225143605
Poplar--3-148-1-2411128577738-137245173156258207
St.Marylebone--18-_-181424-245609507385459181062031691808381,096
St.Pancras--213--67-18---1,0621,5987506881542867234146398501,708
Shoreditch----1434113---3542006251385245150328287740
Southwark-_-14216122-7-6451,5851,6864622,501-1643432092234451,575
Stepney----19136100-52-44546918448872-2352642732389161,141
Stoke Newington------13-1---39437194159-431958616743145
Wandsworth--347--51114---129471,011322-2401,5447181,6114921,352
Westminster,C. of------1,5651110113715512563933,40541211982061133,0013,714
Woolwich--2†2453-11-2261451,049517603-1172672578552821,015
Total1-26173744647,3977747713304008,96421,89213,74423,5383943,8849,3977,3549,69412,70128,268

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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 9—Poplar 3 (31 inspections), Stepney 6 (75 inspections).
Prosecutions : Dairies—Bethnal Green 1, Hammersmith 1, Hampstead 1, Holborn 1, Islington 1, St. Pancras 2;
Restaurants : City of London 1, Hackney 2, Hampstead 1, Islington 1, Kensington 1, St. Marylebone 2 ;
Water Supply : Battersea 1, Islington 7, Paddington 1, St.Pancras 9; Ice-cream premises—Westminster 1.