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London County Council 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Metropolitan borough.Houses.Lodgers.
Poplar18398
Stepney631,126
Woolwich126
Total821,550

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Licensing of Seamen's Lodging Houses.
During the year application was made for, and a licence was granted in respect of the New
German Sailors' Home, situated in Rich-street, West India Dock-road. This house is the only
licensed seamen's lodging house in the County. It accommodates some 64 seamen lodgers.
The Council has no power at present to compel keepers to apply for a licence, although it has
power to grant licences on applications by the keepers of such houses. Communications have passed
between the Council and the Board of Trade as to the desirability of an Order being issued rendering
obligatory the annual licensing of seamen's lodging houses, but the matter is still under consideration.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
In the last report the position of the several sanitary authorities was stated in respect of amendment
of the by-laws for houses let in lodgings consequent upon decisions of the High Court in 1904
in the cases of Stiles v. Galinski and Nokes and Nokes v. the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of
Islington. There has since been no change in that position. The following table shows the number
of houses on the registers at the end of 1907, and other particulars :—

Table: Registered houses let in lodgings.

Registered houses let in lodgings.

Sanitary area.Number of houses.No. of Inspections, 1907.No. of ' Notices, 1907.No. of Prosecutions, 1907.
On register at end of 1906.Added in 1907.Removed in in 1907.On register at end of 1907.
Paddington1,27248-1,3208,643*121*
†4,295†6
Kensington1,9815362,0289,304*47*
†1,187†7
Hammersmith2,8524323792,905154
Fulham114114_-
Chelsea6025597337*5*
†100†
Westminster City of1,602301,5722,2374
St. Marylebone758758
Hampstead23976-31552734
St. Pancras2,2962,3162,429*1,394
†118
Islington891-No register under new bylaws.12,236*120*
†1,274†11
Stoke Newington246243243
Hackney463226226*7
†79
Holborn690156861,325*11*
†275†
Finsbury1,254211,23311,463*67*
†3,191†8
London, City of315304370
Shoreditch2661152724191405
Bethnal Green50123155092,6376961
Stepney2,8122843932,7032,768*314*6
†1,148†18
Poplar960931,0202,736*72*1
Night 292†367†2
Southwark1,24817101,255
Bermondsey224—-1223426*4*
†79†
Lambeth372--372•
Battersea123--123Frequent102
Wandsworth21811-229513*14*
†362†5
Camberwell217--2171,025*9*1
†305†2
Deptford269--269---
Greenwich31013----
Lewisham15—-15159*4-
†29-
Woolwich3072853307583374

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* For overcrowding. + For other conditions.