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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 1923

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1923

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Overcrowding, 1923—
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
Shelters' provided under Sec. 60 (4) of the Public Health
Act, 1891—
Number of persons accommodated 80
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., 1909, Sec. 35 —
Number of houses for which applications were
received during the year
Number of houses for which certificates were granted