Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Common Lodging Houses.
The administration of the Common Lodging Houses Acts devolved upon the Council in 1894.
By the passing of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, the Council obtained powers
to license common lodging houses annually. New by-laws governing common lodging houses came into
force on the 1st October, 1903.
In the following table will be seen the number of houses, the authorised number of lodgers, and the number of convictions, with the penalties inflicted, and other particulars during each year since
1894 :—
Year. | No. of houses on register. | Authorised number of lodgers. | No. of day visits by inspectors. | No. of night visits. | No. of prosecutions. | No. of convictions. | Penalties and costs. | No. of deaths, † | No. of cases of infectious disease. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | |||||||||
1895 | 626 | 29,574 | 16 | 12 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 51 | 99 | ||
1896 | 596 | 29,140 | 28,331 | - | 31 | 30 | 112 | 16 | 0 | 65 | 71 |
1897 | 581 | 28,718 | 26,121 | - | 31 | 30 | 92 | 11 | 0 | 59 | 48 |
1898 | 560 | 28,332 | 27,658 | - | 29 | 29 | 167 | 3 | 0 | 87 | 44 |
1899 | 544 | 28,448 | 28,229 | 1,162 | 25 | 22 | 183 | 9 | 0 | 96 | 54 |
1900 | 528 | 28,311 | 28,428 | 668 | 16 | 13 | 102 | 15 | 0 | 91 | 40 |
1901 | 514 | 28,037½* | 35,225 | 2,133 | 16 | 15 | 96 | 3 | 0 | 102 | 166 |
1902 | 491 | 28,970½* | 40,512 | 1,449 | 22 | 21 | 98 | 4 | 0 | 120 | 684 |
1903 | 470 | 28,893 | 33,402 | 4,790 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 98 | 53 |
1904 | 451 | 28,896 | 27,501 | 2,970 | 15 | 14 | 62 | 6 | 0 | 74 | 66 |
1905 | 413 | 27,571½* | 28.158 | 1,565 | 21 | 16 | 77 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 14 |
1906 | 402 | 28,063½* | 30,028 | 2,349 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 22 |
1907 | 395 | 28,651½* | 33,630 | 2,307 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 81 | 27 |
In the year 1907 proceedings before the Magistrates were instituted in 3 instances, resulting in
3 convictions, the penalties amounting to £11—with costs amounting to £1 9s.
The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease reported in common lodging houses were as
follows :—Erysipelas, 14 ; scarlet fever, 7 ; diphtheria, 5 ; enteric fever, 1—total, 27.
The following table shows the total number of common lodging houses, and the authorised accommodation for the different classes of lodgers in the several sanitary areas of London, other than
that of the City, on 31st December, 1907 :—
Sanitary district. | No. of houses. | Authorised accommodation. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men. | Women. | Couples. | Total. | ||
Battersea | 8 | 157 | 78 | 23 | 281 |
I Bermondsey | 5 | 1,078 | — | — | 1,078 |
Bethnal Green | 14 | 709 | — | — | 709 |
Camberwell | 6 | 536 | — | — | 536 |
Chelsea | 9 | 337 | 52 | — | 389 |
Deptford | 8 | 1,159 | 80 | — | 1,239 |
Finsbury | 8 | 543 | — | — | 543 |
Fulham | 1 | 43 | — | — | 43 |
Greenwich | 4 | 157 | — | — | 157 |
Hackney | 6 | 401 | — | — | 401 |
Hammersmith | 9 | 466 | — | 4 | 474 |
Hampstead | — | — | — | — | — |
Holborn | 30 | 1,797 | 162 | — | 1,959 |
Islington | 43 | 1,229 | 215 | 18 | 1,480 |
Kensington | 24 | 427 | 272 | — | 699 |
Lambeth | 7 | 702 | — | — | 702 |
Lewisham | 1 | 30 | — | — | 30 |
Paddington | 7 | 195 | 40 | — | 235 |
Poplar | 9 | 1,142 | — | — | 1,142 |
St. Marylebone | 17 | 1,321 | 84 | - | 1,405 |
St. Pancras | 10 | 727 | 111 | - | 833 |
Shoreditch | 12 | 774 | 1 | - | 774 |
South wark | 44 | 3,195 | 492 | - | 3,687 |
Stepney | 61 | 5,455 | 752 | 180 | 6,567 |
Stoke Newington | 1 | 37 | -- 1 | - | 37 |
Wandsworth | 9 | 176 | 5½ | 20 | 221½ |
Westminster, City of | 18 | 2,359 | 75 | — | 2,434 |
Woolwich | 24 | 547 | 44 | — | 591 |
London—excluding the City of | London | 395 | 25,699 | 2,462 ½ | 245 | 28,651½ |
*½ One child.
† The number of deaths stated in the above table includes all the deaths actually occurring in common
lodging houses and a few deaths occurring in public institutions among persons of the common lodging house class,
which are brought to the knowledge of the inspectors in certain cases in which death is followed by an inquest.