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 London County Council]
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Metropolitan borough. | Number of sanitary inspectors. | Census,1901. | ||||||||||||||
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Inhabited houses. | Total tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | Average per sanitary inspector. | |||||||||
Males. | Fe males. | Inhabited houses. | Tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | ||||||||
South wark | 13 | 3 | 20,878 | 47,808 | 39,612 | 8,133 | 206,180 | 147,928 | 46,073 | 1,305 | 2,988 | 2,476 | 508 | 12,886 | 9,245 | 2,880 |
Stepney | 18 | — | 31,462 | 61.113 | 49,182 | 16,541 | 298,600 | 209,200 | 99,179 | 1,748 | 3,395 | 2,732 | 919 | 16,589 | 11,622 | 5,510 |
Stoke Newington | 3 | - | 7,717 | 11,824 | 5,813 | 497 | 51,247 | 18,611 | 2,835 | 2,572 | 3,941 | 1,938 | 166 | 17,082 | 6,204 | 945 |
Wandsworth | 10* | l | 37,764 | 49,756 | 21,052 | 1,525 | 232,034 | 76,329 | 10,337 | 3,433 | 4,523 | 1,914 | 139 | 21,094 | 6,939 | 940 |
Westminster (City of) | 10 | 2 | 18,366 | 41,244 | 26,668 | 4,346 | 183,011 | 83,624 | 23,856 | 1,530 | 3,437 | 2,222 | 362 | 15,251 | 6,969 | 1,988 |
W oolwich | 9 | 1 | 18,086 | 24,585 | 14,017 | 1,243 | 117,178 | 50,985 | 7,727 | 1,809 | 2,458 | 1,402 | 124 | 11,718 | 5,098 | 773 |
City of London | 18† | 1 | 3,865 | 5,339 | 3,307 | 504 | 26,923 | 10,625 | 2,921 | 203 | 281 | 174 | 27 | 1,417 | 559 | 154 |
County London ) | 285 | 28 | 571,768 | 1,019,546 | 672,030 | 124,773 | 4,536,541 | 2,449,789 | 726,096 | 1,827 | 3,257 | 2,147 | 399 | 14,494 | 7,827 | 2,320 |
* There are also five inspectors concerned with drains and sanitary fittings in old and new houses under control of the surveyors.
†Includes 8 meat inspectors.