HC Deb 24 March 1904 vol 132 cc602-3
DR. HUTCHINSON () Sussex, Rye

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of licensed victuallers in the county of London upon the 1st day of January, 1904, and the average number in the last five years of transfers and of bankrupts among these licensed victuallers.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) Returns from the clerks to the licensing justices show (1) that there were 5,417 licensed victuallers in the county of London in the year 1903, and (2) that the average number of transfers of victuallers' licences during the last five years has been 1,345. It appears that the average number of bankruptcies among licensed victuallers in the county of London during the last five years was forty-nine.