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The Dairies have been systematically inspected during the year
One of the most important functions that Sanitary Officers
can perform is to do what is possible to stimulate the local producers
and retailers to a higher standard of cleanliness in the collection and
distribution of milk.
No cows are now kept in the Borough.
RESTAURANT KITCHENS AND EATING HOUSES.
There are 15 of these premises in the Borough. The results
of the inspections, both of the food and the kitchens, have been
satisfactory.
HOUSING.
No material industrial development of Stoke Newington is
likely, and the demand for houses will continue to come from those
who are industrially employed elsewhere. But there is an urgent
need of more dwellings in Stoke Newington in order to reduce
the excessive occupation of many existing ones.
Of the dwelling houses in the Borough (8,042), 3,978 are of a
working class rental and type. Although the average annual increase
of population for the five years before the War was about 8 per thousand,
no new working class dwellings have been erected for some ten
years. About 6,000 of the houses are at present tenemented and,
especially in the South Hornsey Ward, there are many tenements
with more than two occupants per room.
During the year 1921 many of the least satisfactory dwellings
within the Borough were inspected and the facts duly entered in the
special Register which has to be kept under the Housing and Town
Planning Act of 1909.
Some of these are old and unsatisfactory in sanitary respects. It
cannot be said that their closure and demolition is urgent. They are
kept under frequent inspection and in most of them we have imposed restricting
conditions as to occupancy.