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London County Council 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Chelsea.—The borough council has erected Sir Thomas More.buildings, consisting of five blocks,
providing in all 37 one.room tenements, 130 two.room tenements and 94 three.room tenements, the
average rent per room being 3s. l½d. per week.
Westminster.—The building by the borough council of three blocks of dwellings in Regency.street
was finished in 1904 and were occupied by 344 families comprising 1,138 persons. The number of applicants
was several times more than could be accommodated.
Hampstead.—After inquiry into the character of the accommodation in the neighbourhood of the
Fleet.road a piece of vacant land was purchased at the corner of Lower Cross.road and Upper Park.road,
and plans approved for the housing of 248 persons in three blocks containing 12 tenements of two rooms,
20 tenements of three rooms and 10 tenements of four rooms.
Greenwich.—The Medical Officer of Health gives account of proposals for the provision of dwellings
for the working classes, which were before the borough council, but inasmuch as vacant accommodation
was found to exist no action was taken in the matter.
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part II. of the Act as unfit for human habitation.

Table: The following tabular statement shows the procedings of the district authorities concerning houses represented as unfit for human habitation, and in respect of which the Council has received copies of representations from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1904 :-

The following tabular statement shows the procedings of the district authorities concerning houses represented as unfit for human habitation, and in respect of which the Council has received copies of representations from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1904 :-

Local Authority.Total number of houses concerning which the Council has received information that representations have been made from the 1/1/04 tn the 31/12/34Number of houses dealt with by owners without Magisterial intervention.Number of houses for which closing orders were granted.Number of houses for which dosing orders were refused.Number of houses represented but subsequently dealt with under Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Still closed.Derno. lished.Improved.Total.Still closed.Demolished.Improved.Total.
Battersea-----------
Bermondsey-----------
Bethnal Green-----------
Camberwell-----------
Chelsea-----------
Deptford-----------
Finskury-----------
Fulham-----------
Greenwich-----------
Hackney16-9716---.--
Hammersmith-----------
Hampstead8---------8
Holborn4--22--22--
Islington-----------
Kensington-----------
Lambeth155-1015------
Lewisham11--1------
Paddington-----------
Poplar6----24-6--
St. Marylebone1----1--1--
St. Pancras1--11------
Shoreditch. -----------
Southwark5--------5-
Stepney-----------
Stoke Newington-----------
Wandsworth-----------
Westminster-----------
Woolwich10--661--13-
Total676926414421088

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Death-rates obtaining among persons resident in the Council's buildings.
The following death-rates obtaining among tenants of the Council's dwellings relate to buildings
which were occupied during the whole of the year 1904. The population thus dealt with comprised 15,667
persons, and the death-rate at " all ages " after correction for age and sex distribution was 14 0 per 1,000
living compared with 17.5 for London. The factor for age and sex correction has been calculated on the
age and sex distribution of the population which obtained in 1903; it has been assumed therefore, for the
purposes of the following table, that the age and sex constitution of the population in these buildings
has remained unaltered since 1903 :—