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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1905
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1905
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75
Shoreditch 99
Bethnal Green 127
Poplar 36
Westminster 7
Croydon 1
Camberwell 2
Stoke Newington 40
Stepney 40
Hornsey 2
Deptford 1
Bermondsey 3
Chelsea 5
St. Pancras 3
Tottenham 10
Wandsworth 4
Walthamstow 6
West Ham 2
Kensington 1
Hove 2
Bromley
2,138
On examination of the list of outworkers sent in by employers in
this Borough during 1905, we found 1619 whose addresses were in
other districts. The names and addresses of these were forwarded
to their respective local authorities, as given in the following list:—
Bethnal Green 416
Stepney 123
Tottenham 100
Camberwell 48
Hford 2
St. Pancras 4
Bermondsey 8
Leytonstone 6
Wood Green 9
Richmond 2
Woolwich 1
Shoreditch 247
Southwark 12
Edmonton 7
East Ham 9
Croydon 1
Hampstead 3
Willesden 4
New Southgate 3
Poplar 139
Stoke Newington 82
Hornsey 2
Lambeth 8
Westminster 1