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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 1906

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

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housing.

Table: housing.Overcrowding.

housing.

Overcrowding.

In Registered Rooms—Group A.Group B.
Families2141
Persons, all ages70145
% „ under 10 years2859
„ 10 years and upwards4286
Abated by re-adjustment of occupants148
Requiring removal113
Cases held over, etc.620
Streets comprised in
Group A.Group B.
Hampden Street (34 houses)Amberley Road (1 house)Hall Place(9 houses)
Marlborough St. (44 „ )Braithwaite Place (3 houses)Hall Place West(1 house)
Bouverie Street (1 house)Hermitage Street(10 houses)
Campbell Street (2 houses)Hethpool Street(3 „)
Church Place (15 „)Howell Street(4 „)
Crompton Street (1 house)Kent's Place(1 house)
Cuthbert Street (2 houses)Welling's Place(9 „)

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The "housing" conditions as found at the time of registration are shown in Table 34.

Table: TABLE 34.Particulars as to Numbers of Tenements and Inhabitants therein, registered during 1906.

TABLE 34.

Particulars as to Numbers of Tenements and Inhabitants therein, registered during 1906.

Rooms to Tenement.Group of Streets.12345678
P10P10P10P10P10P10P10P10
TTTTTTTT
10P10P10P10P10P10P10p10P
1A4848...43851194611384....................................
B2929...2752230622871414369...........................
2A.........2754...276417143224|11l"3322511193156144
B11...1612...82041641232565601231413714.........
3A.........36...512341334 _119266......171
B...........................122...........................• • •...

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T—number of Tenements containing(P/10) Persons over 10 years of age, and (10/P) Persons under 10 years of age.

Table: The table may be summarised thus:—

The table may be summarised thus:—

Tenements of—Total.Occupants.Average persons per room.
Houses registered 1906.Borough Census 1901.
1. room2094192.01.8
2 rooms1596241.91.7
3 „20811.31.3
4 „—-—1.1

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Supervision.—The total number of inspections to registered houses, apart from those in
connection with the annual cleansing, was 2,825 last year, as compared with 3,756 in 1905
and 3,511 in 1904. The nuisances discovered are set out in Table 35. To remedy the defects
found, 1,091 notices were issued, viz., 369 written intimations, 68 "statutory notices," 418
under various by-laws, and 239 under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904.