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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The only improvement scheme carried out of late
years has been on the Glebe Estate where a number of
old and dilapidated houses have been demolished and
three-storied flats built letting at 13s. 6d. per week per
flat. Only a small proportion of the old inhabitants are
now living in the new flats.
Putney.—The Medical Officer of Health reported that there is no
overcrowding.
There are 28 single rooms occupied as separate
dwellings.
128 cottages of 2 to 4 rooms occupied by one family.
269 „ 5 to 6 ,, one and two families.
936 „ 6 to 12 ,, two or three ,,
The last two items being mostly new houses with modern
improvements.
The average earnings are 30s. per week, the average
rents 7s. per week, the rents being from 4s. 6d. to 7s. 6d.
per week. There are about 50 flats or parts of houses
to let.
There have been no displacements of artizans under
improvement schemes.
The chief want is a three-roomed tenement at about
5s. per week.
wandsworth.—The Medical Officer of Health reported that as
far as can be ascertained from house to house inspection
there is little overcrowding. In ten years about 17 cases
per annum were dealt with. In 1899 and 1900 out of 2,584
houses accommodating 3,219 families, 158 or 6.5 per cent.
lived in one room, 296 or 9.2 per cent. in two rooms, 979
or 30.4 per cent. in three rooms, and 1,734 or 53.9 per
cent. in four rooms and upwards. Such overcrowding as
there is, is due to the rent and the large families of small
wage earners. The rents of houses are from 3s. per
week for two rooms to 14s. per week for six rooms. The
average rent 6s. 6d. to 12s., in some parts 9s. to 10s. per
week. Average earnings £1 to £2. There is a great
demand for houses which are let as soon as built, and
except in Springfield Ward there are few if any unoccupied
houses.