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London County Council 1904

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

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Table: Houses let in lodgings.

Houses let in lodgings.

Number of places.Inspections, 1904.Notices, 1901.Prosecutions, 1904.
On register at end of 1903.Added in 1904.Removed in 1904.On register at end of 1904.
Paddington85118561,0303,501148a
Kensington2,0509924
Hammersmith1,630378451,9631,595 1,828*204-
Fulham329--329720
Chelsea602--602180
Westminster, City of2,004814261,659987
St. Marylebone
Hampstead908--908---
St. Pancras1,81418822,0002,652 5,552*
Islington6559317499,18951a 455b
Stoke Newington18039219
Hackney435
Holborn77528367071,22867a 117blla 15b
Finsbury1,07952-1,1319,036131a 883b-a 4b
London, City of360425
Shoreditch23324-25727229-
Bethnal Green365112324451,4536a4a
3b5b
Stepney614
Poplar564204768709 1,510*20a 384b
Southwark1,100105631,142
Bermondsey20711-2184622a 91b-
Lambeth372--372--
Battersea121--12179-
Wandsworth200301321749113a 347b-
Camberwell300-7222814935a 101b-
Deptford-189-189553105b-
Greenwich----
Lewisham15421743a-
Woolwich12311642353718a 225b

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Common Lodging Houses.
The administration of the Common Lodging Houses Acts devolved upon the Council in 1894.
New bv-laws governing common lodging houses came into force on the 1st October, 1903.

Table: In the following table will be seen the number of houses registered, the authorised number of lodgers, and the number of convictions, with the penalties inflicted, during each year since 1894.:-

In the following table will be seen the number of houses registered, the authorised number of lodgers, and the number of convictions, with the penalties inflicted, during each year since 1894.:-

Year.No. of houses on register.Authorised number of lodgers.No. of day visits by inspectors.No. of night visits.No. of prosecutions.No. of convictions.Penalties and costs.No. of deaths, †No. of cases of infectious disease.
£s.d.
189562629,574--161237605199
189659629,14028,331-31301151606571
189758128,71826,121-3130951105948
189856028,33227,658-2929167608744
189954428,44828,2291,1622522183909654
190052828,31128,42866816131051509140
190151428,037½35,2252,13316159630102166
190249128,970½40,5121,44922219840120684
190347028,89333,4024,79066261109853
190445128,89627,5012,970151462607466

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* He-inspections. (a) For overcrowding. (6)For other causes.
† The number of deaths stated in the above table includos only those deaths brought to the knowledge of
the inspectors as actually occurring in the houses, and not those occurring in infirmaries aud other institutions to
which the lodgers were removed when attacked with fatal illness.