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 Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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15
Total number of Intimation Notices served
for all purposes 6935
Overcrowding—
Dwelling rooms overcrowded 8
Remedied 8
Prosecutions —
Underground Rooms—
Illegal occupation 9
Closed 9
Insanitary houses—
Closed (under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891) —
Closed (under the Housing of the Working
Classes Acts, including the Housing Town
Planning, etc., Act) 33
Verminous rooms cleansed 1109
Shelters provided under sec. 60 (4) of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891—
Persons accommodated —
Houses for which applications were received 85
Tenements comprised therein 235
Tenements for which Certificates were
(a) granted 119
,, „ ,, (b) refused 100
„ „ „ (c) deferred 16
Common Lodging-houses—certificates
granted —
Number of prosecutions under By-laws, under Public
Health Act, 1891— —
Mortuaries —
Number of bodies 357 (infectious cases 2).