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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 1913
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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APPENDIX K.
Tenement Houses.
Number of Tenement Houses on Register at end of 1913:—
Under original bye-laws 323
Under new bye-laws 253
Number of Tenement Houses cancelled during 1913:—
Under original bye-laws 226
Under new bye-laws 6
Number of Tenement Houses registered during 1913:—
Under original bye-laws nil.
Under new bye-laws 259
Number of Inspections made:—
Under original bye-laws 1,708
Under new bye-laws 334
Rooms overcrowded 8
Cellars illegally occupied 3
Water provided to upper floors 3
Cases of indecent occupation 2
Notices served 596
Registration Forms written and served (all under new
bye-laws) 355
APPENDIX L.
House-to-House Inspections.
Number of inspections 1,656
Number of notices served 904
Cases of overcrowding remedied during 1913 231
Number of defects discovered 4,268