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Stepney 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table showing the number of milk premises, slaughter houses, ice-cream premises, etc., together with the number of inspections made to them.

PREMISESNUMBER OF PLACES.Number of inspections, 1915.Number of notices, 1915.Number of prosecutions. 1916.
No. on register at end of 1914.No. added in 1916.No. removed in 1915.No. on register at end of 1915.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)
Milk premises58918325751953108...
Cowsheds31130635...
Slaughter-houses4......411......
Other offensive trade premises7......7271...
Ice cream premises22894419340250...
Registered houses let in lodgings25461...25473870(a) 137(a) ...
(b) 1460(b) 13

(a) For overcrowding. (6) For other conditions.
Total number of Intimations served for all purposes 12,381

Overcrowding—

Number of Inspections15,201
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded322
Number of Notices servedIntimations322
Statutory Notices110
Number remedied322
Number of Prosecutions

Underground, rooms—
Illegal occupation dealt with during the year 27
Number of rooms closed 19
Insanitary Houses—
Number closed under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 —
Number closed under the Housing and Town Planning Act 23
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1903. Part VIII.
Number of prosecutions for breach of Bye-laws as to conveyance of
dead horses through the street —