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Poplar 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Public Health Department.
December 31st, 1905.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sib,—
I beg to submit to you my second Annual Report of the
work carried out by me, in the Borough of Poplar, respecting
houses let in lodgings.
The total number of houses on the register is 580. The number
registered during the year being 207.
The number of houses that have been registered and re-registered
during the year is 329.
The registered houses are situated in the Borough as per statement below—
| Bow | 89 |
| Bromley | 206 |
| Poplar | 203 |
| Millwall and Cubitt Town | 82 |
| Total | 580 |
This gives an increase of 299 houses added to the register during
the year.
The total number of rooms that have had their cubical capacity
ascertained being 200. These rooms are used either as day, or
day and night rooms.
Fifty-one cases of over-crowding have been found to exist. These
have all been abated, either by the occupants of the house leaving
the premises, or by distributing themselves throughout the rooms insuch
a manner as to avoid and abate the over-crowding. Comparing