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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

Poplar 1937

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

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Table: Report of the Inspector for Houses Divided into Separate Tenements, etc.

Report of the Inspector for Houses Divided into Separate Tenements, etc.

(a) Houses divided into separate Tenements, etc.
Number of Houses on Register at end of 1936315
,, removed from Register during 193725
290
,, ,, registered during 193757
,, ,, on Register at end of 1937347
Visits for registration purposes153
Declarations, for information, sent out—
,, with information, returned—
Rooms measured, etc.23
Houses registered57
Notices of registration sent out13
Inspections:
(a) Night inspections17
(b) First annual inspections201
(c) Other routine inspections55
(d) On complaints83
(e) On account of re-housing11
Re-inspections1,174
Miscellaneous visits, enquiries, etc.482
Number of informal notices served342
,, ,, ,, complied with213
,, Notices served146
,, ,, complied with ..60
,, Final Notices served40
cases in which legal proceedings were taken6
Work done as a result of Final Notice or legal proceedings,
number of cases35
Number of rooms cleansed and freed from vermin122
Overcrowding, cases discovered18
,, ,, abated22
Mixed sleeping, cases discovered3
,, ,, abated1