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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

City of Westminster 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Table I.

Table I.

Cols, 11911.
1901. Total. 2Buildings used as Dwellings.Buildings not used as Dwellings.
Total. (Cols. 4—11.) 3Ordinary Dwelling-houses. 4Blocks of Flats. 5Shops. 6Hotels, Inns, and Public Houses. 7Offices, Warehouses, Workshops, Factories. 8Institutions. 9Others. 10Vessels, Sheds, Vagrants, &c. 11Separate Flats. (Included in Col. 5.) 12
Kind of Building. 13No. 14
Number inhabited18,33617,54011,5221,1462,2035186951541,302_10,631Places of worship81
Separate occupiers41,34435,98418,54310,8023,5105318112801,4624510,802Government and municipal buildings25
Population183,011160,26176,53635,18514,32710,2462,77311,4499,62811735,185Shops3,285
Offices685
Uninhabited3,4631,11637425186637-488-1,568Warehouses, workshops, factories1,017
Being built15710542235417—5—80Theatres and other places of amusement42

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The classification of the kinds of buildings is based on descriptions furnished by the local enumerators; in some cases, especially as regards the
B2 distinction between a flat and an ordinary dwelling-house occupied by more than one family, differences in practice are almost inevitable, the numbers
under the several headings must therefore be regarded as approximate.