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Poplar 1914

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

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COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
Applications for licences were received in respect of common lodginghouses
in the County of London and considered by the Public Health
Committee, which sat as the licensing authority on behalf of the London
County Council, at a Special Meeting held at the Clerkenwell Sessions
House on June 29th, 1914, at 11.30 o'clock a.m., as follows:—
65, Bow Lane, 41 men, John Moore.
193, 5, 7, Bow Road, Bow Chambers, 552 men, Geo. Benjamin Oyler
196, Bow Road, 56 men, George J. Betts.
217, Bow Road, 78 men, Thomas Levy.
144, High Street, 37 men, Thomas Alfred Felton.
207, High Street, 199 men, George Benjamin Oyler.
378, Old Ford Road, 31 men, Betha Nicholson.
SEAMEN'S LODGING HOUSES-
Merchant Shipping Act, 1884.
No. Address of Premises. Lodgers. Keeper.
75 Garford Street 10 Bertha Peterson
97 Garford Street (Scandinavian Home) 168 Axel Welin
148 Jeremiah Street (Queen Vic. S. Rest) 46 David Roe (Rev.)
187 3, Pennyfields 7 Felix Twede
48, „ 17 Wong Toung
49 High Street, Poplar 22 Lai Quai
70 „ „ 12 Noogi Mayeda
38 Pennyfields 43 Charles King
70 ,, 3 Mary M. Flack
6 Duff Street 6 L. Zetter
On 1st December a list of seamen's lodging houses was received
from the London County Council, in regard to which applications for
licenses and renewal of licenses would be considered by the Public Health
Committee of the London County Council on 10th December, 1914, at
County Hall, Spring Gardens, at 2.30 o'clock. Inspections of the premises
in Poplar were made and it was reported that there were no objections
to be made to the granting or renewal of licenses, so far as the Poplar
Public Health Department was concerned.