[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford].

  • Brentford (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1915]
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    25 OFFENSIVE TRADES. Regular inspections of the premises where offensive trades are carried on have been made, and they are, so far as the nature of the business will allow, kept in a cleanly manner. In addition to the offensive trades enumerated in Section 112 of the Public Health Act 1875, the Council have, by virtue of the powers given them by Section 51 of the Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1890, added the trades of Fish Frying, Gut Scraping and Rag and Bone Dealing, but no applications were received for the consent of the Council to establish any of these trades. DAIRIES, COWSHEDS & MILKSHOPS. There are three cowkeepers, five dairymen and forty-eight purveyors of milk on the register. Three applications for registration as retailers of milk, and one to be registered as a cowkeeper, have been received and reported upon during the year. Inspections have been frequently made to the dairies, cowsheds and milkshops, particular attention being paid to cleanliness. The cows in the district are inspected quarterly by the Council's Veterinary Inspector. COMMON LODGING HOUSES The number of common lodging houses in the district, as will be seen from the following table, remains the same as in 1913, viz. 6, and these houses contain 29 rooms and can accommodate 171 lodgers nightly. Frequent inspections have been made and no cause for com plaint has been found. It is again worthy of note that no cases of infectious disease have been notified at, or traced to, any of the lodging houses. No. Situationof Premises Rooms Registered Accomodation for 1 Old Spring Gardens 3 12 Lodgers 2 11 2 8 „ 3 11 2 8 „ 4 High Street 4 25 „ 5 11 6 24 „ 6 »» 12 94 „