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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

Bermondsey 1920

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1920

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Overcrowding, 1919—
Number of dwelling rooms overcrowded -
Number remedied -
Number of prosecutions -
Underground rooms—
Illegal occupation dealt with during year -
Number of rooms closed -
Insanitary houses —
Number closed under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 -
Number closed under the Housing of the Working
Classes Act -
Number of premises cleansed under Section 20 of the
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1904 -
Number closed under the Housing, Town Planning,
etc., Act, 1909 15
Shelters provided under Sec. 60 (4) of the Public
Health Act, 1891 —
Number of persons accommodated 20
Revenue Acts —
Number of houses for which applications were
received during the year -
Number of tenements for which certificates were
granted -
Number of tenements for which certificates were
deferred -
Housing Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, Sec. 35 —
Number of houses for which applications were
received during the year -
Number of houses for which certificates were granted -