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Marylebone 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 births:—
Legitimate 77. Illegitimate 121. Total 8l.
Deaths from Measles (all ages), 30.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages), 11.
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age), 16.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The following is a list of the special premises in the Borough requiring
constant supervision:—
Milk Premises 127
Cowhouses 1
Slaughterhouses 1
Offensive Trades 3
Ice Cream Premises 118
Bakehouses 54
Restaurant, Dining Room and Coffee Shop Kitchens 190
Hotel Kitchens 20
Pastrycooks and Tea Rooms 58
Fried Fish Shops 23
Fish Curers 5
Houses Let in Lodgings 1,070
Workshops and Workplaces 3,573
Total 5,243
Smoke Nuisances.
Number of Observations 453 Number of Nuisances and Complaints
4
Number of Notices 4 Number of Summonses Nil
Housing of the Working Classes.
Number of Houses inspected—
(a) On account of complaints
or illness (P.H. Act) 2,977
(b) House-to-house (Housing
Consolidated Regulations,
1925) 1,071
Tenements in blocks ... 255
Number of Notices served—
(a) Under P.H. Act
(1) Intimation 1,060
(2) Statutory 157
(b) Under Housing Act Nil
Number of Houses repaired or
nuisances remedied under P.H.
Act 2,063
Number of Houses repaired
under Section 3 of Housing
Act—
(a) By Owners Nil
(b) By Local Authority in
default of Owners ... Nil
Number of Houses closed on
Notice by Owner that they
could not be made fit Nil
Number of Houses for the Working
Classes—
(a) Erected during year 20
(b) In course of erection 46
Number of Representations by
Medical Officer or other
person
Number of Houses included in
such representations 533
Number of Closing Orders made Nil
Number of Closing Orders determined
(i.e., Houses made fit) Nil
Number of Demolition Orders Nil
Number of Houses demolished—
(a) In pursuance of Orders... Nil
(b) Voluntarily Nil
Total Number of Houses in the
borough 19,341
Number of Houses occupied by
the Working Classes 8,232
Number of Houses registered
under the new Bye-laws as to
Houses Let in Lodgings Nil
Number of Inspections made of
such Houses Nil
Number of Prosecutions Nil