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London County Council 1914
Annual report of the Council, 1914 Vol. III public health...
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2 Annual Report of the London County Council, 1914.
| Camberwell | 292 | 292 | 484 | |||
| Chelsea | — | — | — | — | ||
| Deptford | 289 | — | — | 289 | 578 | — |
| Finsbury | 1,164 | — | — | 1,164 | 8,802 | 3 |
| Fulham .. | ||||||
| Greenwich | 243 | 4 | _ | 247 | 300 | _ |
| Hackney | 469 | _ | _ | 469 | 367 | _ |
| Hammersmith | 2,517 | 215 | 60 | 2,672 | 1,336 | — |
| Hampstead | 369 | 36 | — | 405 | 524 | — |
| Holborn | 641 | 12 | 16 | 637 | 1012 | |
| Islington | 12,990 | 3 | ||||
| Kensington | 2,085 | 5 | 19 | 2,071 | 8,245 | 7 |
| Lambeth | 372 | —. | _ | 372 | 4,464 | — |
| Lewisham | 5 | 5 | 14 | — | ||
| Paddington ........ | 1,376 | 60 | 11 | 1,425 | 8,781 | 7 |
| Poplar | 1,148 | 10 | — | 1,158 | 3,028 | — |
| St. Marylebone | 1,213 | — | 6 | 1,207 | 7,346 | — |
| St. Pancras | 2,360 | 4 | — | 2,364 | 618 | 2 • |
| Shoreditch | 280 | — | — | 280 | 380 | — |
| Southwark | 1,247 | — | 1 | 1,246 | 7,412 | — |
| Stepney | 2,509 | 39 | 2 | 2,546 | 4,878 | 1 |
| Stoke Newington | 220 | 11 | — | 231 | 231 | — |
| Wandsworth | 292 | — | — | 292 | 1 ,045 | — |
| Westminster | 1,300 | — | 26 | 1,274 | 6,006 | 10 |
| Woolwich | 432 | 8 | 22 | 418 | 612 | 1 |
Reference was made in the annual reports for the years 1910-13 to a provision in the Housing,
Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909 (section 16) which extends the power of making by-laws as to lodginghouses
for the working classes so as to impose duties upon the owner of the premises in addition to
or in substitution for any other person.
So far as can be gathered from recent annual reports, new by-laws have been adopted in Battersea,
Bethnal Green, Hackney, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Poplar, St. Marylebone, Shoreditch,
and Westminster.
The following death-rates obtaining among tenants of the Council's buildings relate to dwellings within the county which were occupied during the whole of the year 1914. The population thus dealt with comprised 30,867 persons, and the death-rate at " all ages, ' after correction for age and sex distribution, was 8'8 per 1,000 living, compared with 14 4 for London :—
| All Causes—All Ages | 8-8 | 144 |
| „ „ age 0—5...... | 205 | 369 |
| »> >> „ 5 20 | 21 | 29 |
| „ ,, ,,20 and upwards | 9-1 | 158 |
| Diarrhoea | 0-5 | 0-8 |
| Principal epidemic diseases (excluding Diarrhoea) | 07 | 08 |
| Phthisis | 0-8 | 1-4 |
| Tubercular diseases other than Phthisis | 04 | 0-3 |
| Bronchitis | 0-7 | 1-2 |
| Pneumonia | 08 | 1-2 |
(a) No register is now kept, under the Borough of Islington's new by-laws.