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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
Bethnal Green 1909
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX L.
Tenement Houses.
Number of houses registered 517
Number of houses registered during 1909 23
Number of houses removed from register
during 1909 23
Visits paid to registered houses by Inspectors
and particulars recorded in register 2,323
Registration forms written and served 22
Cases of overcrowding abated 8
Cases of indecent occupation abated 6
Number of notices served for Insanitary
Conditions 659
Basements found to be illegally occupied 2
APPENDIX M.
Report on Smoke Observation during
the Year 1909.
Number of shafts kept under observation—about 100
Number of hours spent in observation 376
Number of intimation notices served 25
Number of Statutory notices served 4