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Poplar 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
65, Bow Lane, 41 men, John Moore.
193, 5,7, Bow Road, Bow Chambers, 640 men, Wm. Henry Grayson.
196, Bow Road, 56 men, George J. Betts.
217, Bow Road, 78 men, Thomas Levy.
97, High Street, 15 men, Henrick Miiller.
144, High Street, 29 men, Frederick James Simpson.
207, High Street, 199 men, George Benjamin Oyler.
378, Old Ford Road, 31 men, Betha Nicholson.
38, Pennyfields, 54 men, Mary Stephenson.
SEAMEN'S LODGING HOUSES.
Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
On 24th May, a letter was received from the London County Council
stating that consequent upon the issue of an Order in Council prohibiting
the keeping, within the Administrative County of London, of seamen's
lodging houses by unlicensed persons, a meeting of the Public Health
Committee of the Council would take place at the Clerkenwell Sessions
House, Clerkenwell Road, E.C., at 10.30 a.m., on Monday, the 30th May
for the purpose of hearing applications for licenses; and a list of the
applications received was enclosed with the communication.
A list of applications was received for licenses in respect of Seamen's
Lodging Houses in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, to be considered
by the Public Health Committee of the London County Council, as th(
licensing authority, at a special meeting to be held at the Clerkenwel
Sessions House, on 28th November, 1910, commencing at 2.30 o'clocl
p.m., there being, for the Borough of Poplar, eleven applications fo
renewal of licenses and three for new licenses.