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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

Paddington 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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74
HOUSING.

Table: TABLE 47. Rents paid in Houses let in Lodgings. All Registered Houses.

TABLE 47.

Rents paid in Houses let in Lodgings. All Registered Houses.

Homes comprisingWeekly Rents.Totals.Landlords' Rooms.Empty Rooms.Shops and Stores.
1/62/-2/63/-3/64/-4/65/-5/66/-6/67/-7/6 & upw'ds.
One room5371943661701892412226349812111,56790832774
Two rooms.........211212952464515843421991,944
Three rooms.....................2...123068252364
Four rooms........................11...16971
Totals5371943681712012533193095136224235313,946
Five or more rooms....................................33
Grand Totals5371943681712012533193095136224235343,94990832774

Table: TABLE 48. Showing Increases in Rentals in the Clarendon Street Area.

TABLE 48.

Showing Increases in Rentals in the Clarendon Street Area.

Rooms per Tenement.Rent per Week.Total. Tenements.
Up to 2/62/63/-3/64/-4/65/-6/-6/67/-7/6 & upw'ds.
1190110415461115103553721......632
19051810018583931239926624739
21901.........616964321591092715860
1905............6319224234812564980
31901..................2527414030163
1905..................1182797134
41901........................2...2426
1905..............................2525

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In 1901.—Information was refused by occupants of—
28 tenements of one room; 3 tenements of three rooms;
23 „ two rooms; 6 „ four „
There were in addition 50 tenements of five or more rooms, and
154 empty rooms.
In 1905.—No tenements of five or more rooms were returned. Upwards of
200 rooms were vacant.
Verminous Rooms.—The power conferred by Sec. 20 of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1904, has been extensively used during the past year, 99 notices in all
being issued. Of these no fewer than 85 related to rooms in registered houses. The notices
require all wall papers to be stripped off, defective plaster to be cut away, vermin to be
destroyed, where accessible by blowpipe, and by sulphur fumigation (2 lbs. to each
1,000 cu. ft.;, after which plaster to be made good, walls re-papered, paint work washed,,&c.
Only one summons was necessary to secure the work being properly carried out.