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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 1908

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

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HOUSING.
61
The streets in which houses were registered during the year are set out below, in three
groups, viz.:—
(a) Those inspected for the first time with a view to registration ;
(b) Those in which houses previously passed over were registered; and
(c) Those in which one or more houses were specially marked for registration, in
sequence of the density of inhabitants, dirty conditions, &c.
(a)
Albert Street.
Carlton Mews.
Green Street.
Houses Registered, 1908.
(b)
Campbell Street.
Crompton Street.
Dudley Street.
Hall Place.
Kensal Road.
(c)
Harrow Road.

Table: The housing conditions in the premises added to the Register were as below:—

The housing conditions in the premises added to the Register were as below:—

No. of Houses visited with a view to Registration...77
Houses Registered47
„ Exempt28
„ Empty2
No. of Rooms Registered...166
For living only17
For sleeping69
For living and sleeping80
Other Rooms in Registered Houses...126
Occupied by landlords46
Exempt by rent51
Occupied, not inhabited10
Empty19
Grand Total, Rooms...292
Inhabitants (Registered Houses).
In Registered Rooms, Persons...336
Under 10 years of age108
Aged 10 years and over228
In other Rooms, Persons...135
Under 10 years of age34
Aged 10 years and over101
Grand Total, Inhabitants...471

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Table 39 shows how the tenements in the houses registered during the year were occupied.
It will be seen that 36 tenements were "overcrowded," that is, were inhabited by persons in
excess of an average of two persons per room (the ages of the occupants not being taken into
account). On the standards imposed by the by-laws, 28 families comprising 98 persons were
overcrowded, but in 20 cases the deficiency in the cubic space was so small that it was
thought unnecessary to take any action, for the present at least, with reference thereto. (See
next page).