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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
Lewisham 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Outworkers
Outworkers are visited periodically by the woman sanitary inspector.
The following is a list of trades concerned, extracted from the
autumn lists received :—
No. of
Trade outworkers
visited
Wearing apparel 203
Curtains and furnishing 2
Paper bags 4
Boxmaking 3
Miscellaneous (surgical appliances, etc.) 6
218
SECTION "D" —HOUSING
Building
The following new houses or flats were completed by the Council
during the year :—
Sunderland Mount 1 flat
Hether Grove 119 flats
Byron Close 30 flats
Bromley Road No. 1 25 flats
Total 175 flats
Families rehoused
During the year the following families were rehoused :—
1. By the Lewisham Borough Council:—
(a) In dwellings erected by the Council:—
(i) Emergency hutments 24
(ii) Temporary bungalows 12
(iii) L.B.C. properties 107
143
(b) In requisitioned properties 323
Total 466
2. By the London County Council 940
Grand Total 1406