London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Southwark 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

24
D. Proceedings under Section 12 of the Housing
Act, 1936:—
(1) Number of separate tenements or underground
rooms in respect of which Closing Orders were
made 276
(2) Number of separate tenements or underground
rooms in respect of which Closing Orders were
determined, the tenement or room having been
rendered fit —
TOTAL INSPECTIONS:
Housing Consolidated Regs: 3,676
TOTAL RE-INSPECTIONS: 3,303
Overcrowding statistics are given separately in the following
section.
REHOUSING
There was a general decrease in the total number of applicants
seeking the assistance of the Public Health Department for rehousing.
New cases of overcrowding were slightly fewer than in 1953, but
the total of these cases remaining on the register at the end of 1954
still remains almost the same as at the end of the previous year.

Table: MEDICAL

MEDICAL

Recommendations.195219531954
Cases recommended to L.C.C. on grounds of Tuberculosis526150
Cases recommended to L.C.C. on other medical grounds ..567475
Cases recommended to Southwark Borough Council on medical grounds100169243
Cases recommended to Southwark Borough Council on grounds of Tuberculosis12
Total cases recommended208304380
Rehoused.195219531954
Cases rehoused by L.C.C. on grounds of Tuberculosis161211
Cases rehoused by L.C.C. on other medical grounds132231
Cases rehoused by Southwark Borough Council on grounds of Tuberculosis15—
Cases rehoused by Southwark Borough Council on other medical grounds191620
Cases rehoused by other authorities on grounds of Tuberculosis12—
Medical cases rehoused by own efforts——5
Total cases rehoused505767