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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. | Fe males. | Inhabited houses. | Tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | ||||||||
| Paddington | 10 | 2 | 17,684 | 33,661 | 21,815 | 3,404 | 143,976 | 73,232 | 19,531 | 1,474 | 2,805 | 1,818 | 284 | 11,998 | 6,103 | 1,628 |
| Poplar | 7 | 1 | 22,613 | 35,787 | 26,216 | 4,414 | 168,822 | 105,497 | 27,700 | 2,827 | 4,473 | 3,277 | 552 | 21,103 | 13,187 | 3,462 |
| St. Marylebone | *7 | 1 | 13,535 | 31,623 | 22,947 | 5,180 | 133,301 | 74,153 | 28,147 | 1,692 | 3,953 | 2,868 | 647 | 16,663 | 9,269 | 3,518 |
| St. Pan cras | 15 | 1 | 23,715 | 57,045 | 45,023 | 10,158 | 235,317 | 155,790 | 56,423 | 1,482 | 3,565 | 2,814 | 635 | 14,707 | 9,737 | 3,526 |
| Shore ditch | 6 | — | 12,743 | 27,031 | 22,940 | 6,269 | 118,637 | 89,580 | 35,529 | 2,124 | 4,505 | 3,823 | 1,045 | 19,773 | 14,930 | 5,921 |
| * Includes one temporary inspector. | ||||||||||||||||