Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896
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The following Table gives a summary of the action taken under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, in the last four years.
Total number of Houses represented by the Medical Officer of Health as unfit for habitation | Number of Houses closed, demolished or improved without Magisterial intervention | Number of Houses for which Closing Orders were granted | |||||||
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Closed | Demolished | Improved | Total | Subsequently demolished | Subsequently improved and re-opened | Still closed | Total | ||
195 | 10 | 10 | 92 | 112 | 11 | 64 | 8 | 83 |