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Paddington 1908

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

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62 HOUSING.

Table: Overcrowding, at Registration.

Overcrowding, at Registration.

In Registered Rooms—
Families28
Persons98
„ under 10 years of age40
„ aged 10 years and over58
Overcrowding abated7
By Re-adjustment of Occupants1
By Removal6
Under Notice2
Cases held over20

Table: TABLE 39.Numbers of Tenements and Inhabitants therein. Registered during 1908.

TABLE 39.

Numbers of Tenements and Inhabitants therein. Registered during 1908.

Rooms to Tenement.1234567
TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10TP10
10P10p10P10P10P10P10p
12626...1427161261020204911..................
2.........1122...821315421810262451218152
3....................................1...3142.........

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

Table: The table may be summnarised thus:—

The table may be summnarised thus:—

Tenements of—Total.Occupants.Average persons per room.
Houses registered 1908.Borough Census 1901.
1 room601322.21.8
2 rooms50 .1931.91.7
3 „2111.81.3
4 „---1.1

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Supervision.—The work connected with the "annual cleansing" occupies nearly the
whole of the time of the two inspectors in charge of houses let in lodgings from March to
September or later. During that time all houses on the Register are inspected 3, 4, or more
times. At other times a general supervision is exercised over the whole, and full inspections
made once a quarter of houses known to be badly kept and likely to be overcrowded. The
numerous complaints received involve many inspections.
The inspections made last year numbered 2,499, that total not including the inspections
in connection with the "annual cleansing," registration, or sickness. The defects and
infringements of the by-laws discovered (including those at annual cleansing) are set out in
Table 40. Notices to the number of 1,261 were served during the year, viz.: written intimations,
329; statutory notices, 61; and notices under the various by-laws, 674. The notices
pursuant to provisions of the London County Council (General Powers) Acts numbered 197,
viz.: verminous rooms, 137 ; abolition of dustbins, 18; and additional supplies of water, 42.