Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Tabulated Statement for year ended December 31st, 1905.
Rooms measured, and capacity entered in registers 894
Houses registered 114
Houses re-registered 41
Cases of overcrowding discovered 74
„ „ „ abated 74
Notices to supply information sent out 170
Declaration with „ returned 155
„ for „ outstanding 15
Intimations of houses being placed on registers sent 155
Notices under L.C.C. General Powers Act (1904), Section 20 7
Final notices 14
Notices for not supplying information 43
„ „ abatement of overcrowding 27
„ re animals improperly kept 1
House-to-house inspections 251
„ visits, re registration 412
Re inspections 1946
Night inspections 377
Number of rooms stripped and cleaned 643
„ „ passages, staircases and landings cleansed 144
„ „ areas washhouses and water closets cleansed 216
Notices for cleansing to be carried out 148
The houses on the registers are situated throughout the Borough,
as follows:—
Bow 31
Bromley 317
Blackwall 17
Cubitt Town 55
Millwall 70
Old Ford 152
Poplar 235
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