London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
London County Council 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Metropolitan borough. | Number of sanitary inspectors. | Census, 1901. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Females. | Inhabited houses. | Tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | ||||||||
| Finsbury | 9 | l | 9,280 | 24,097 | 20,515 | 6,373 | 101,463 | 78,346 | 35,723 | 928 | 2,410 | 2,051 | 637 | 10,146 | 7,835 | 3,572 |
| Fulham | 6 | l | 18,534 | 32,137 | 21,681 | 2,341 | 137,289 | 81,364 | 14,892 | 2,648 | 4,591 | 3,097 | 334 | 19,613 | 11,623 | 2,127 |
| Greenwich | 6* | — | 14,240 | 19,702 | 10,877 | 1,199 | 95,770 | 41,260 | 7,947 | 2,373 | 3,284 | 1,813 | 200 | 15,962 | 6,877 | 1,324 |
| Hackney | 15† | 2 | 30,634 | 48,794 | 29,089 | 3,684 | 219,272 | 104,876 | 22,332 | 1,802 | 2,870 | 1,711 | 217 | 12,898 | 6,169 | 1,314 |
| Hammersmith | 9 | — | 15,198 | 25,810 | 15,505 | 2,185 | 112,239 | 55,259 | 13,192 | 1,689 | 2,868 | 1,723 | 243 | 12,471 | 6,140 | 1,466 |
| * Includes one temporary inspector. † Includes two temporary inspectors. | ||||||||||||||||