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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
Lambeth 1916
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916
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Total number of Intimation or Preliminary Notices
served for all purposes 5594
Overcrowding —
Dwelling rooms overcrowded 58
Remedied 58
Prosecutions —
Underground Rooms —
Illegal occupation 38
Closed —
Insanitary houses —
Closed (under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891) 1
Closed (under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts,
including the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act) —
Verminous rooms cleansed 897
Shelters provided under Sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891 —
Number provided 1
Persons accommodated —
Revenue Act, 1903—
Houses for which applications were received 66
Tenements comprised therein 130