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, 1897
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The following Table gives a summary of the action taken under Housing of the Working Classes Act, in the last five 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. | |
205 | 10 | 10 | 100 | 120 | 11 | 64 | 10 | 85 |