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London County Council 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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the working classes in receipt of incomes not exceeding thirty shillings a week. The houses on the
south side were demolished, and replaced by six blocks of residences of three storeys, each containing
six suites of two rooms, which at the present time of writing are completed, and nearly ready for
occupation. In Thames-street and Hesketh-place, moreover, two considerable blocks, containing
26 single-room tenements, have been erected which will prove a great boon and supply to some extent
a much-felt want."
Dr. Dudfield comments on the steps taken to provide accommodation for persons displaced by
the widening of the Great Western Railway in North Kensington. The number of these persons is
1,038, mostly of the labouring class. The railway company proposed to provide for 670, and after a
local inquiry the Local Government Board decided that accommodation should be made for 707.
Westminster.—Dr. Allan reports that the City Council have added to the dwellings under their
control a block of 20 tenements on a site in their possession in Marshall-street.
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part II. of the Act as unfit for human habitation.
The following tabular statement shows the proceedings 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 1st January to the 31st December, 1906 :—
| Sanitary area. | Total number of houses concerning which the Council has received information that representations have been made from the 1/1/0; to the 31/12/06 | Number of houses dealt with by owners, without Magisterial intervention. | Number of houses for which closing orders were granted. | Number of houses for which closing orders were refused. | Number of houses represented but subsequently dealt with under Publie Health (London) Acl, 1891. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still closed. | Demolished. | Improved. | Total. | Still closed. | Demolished. | Improved. | Total, | ||||
| Battersea | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bermondsey | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethnal Green | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Camberwell | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chelsea | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deptford | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Finsbury | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fulham | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greenwich | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hackney- | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hammersmith | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hampstead | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Holborn | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Islington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kensington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lambeth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lewisham | 5 | — | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paddington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poplar | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Marylebone | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| St; Pancras | *6 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Shoreditch | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Southwark | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stepney | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stoke Newington | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wandsworth | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Westminster, City of | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Woolwich | 14 | — | 6 | 8 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 25 | — | 6 | 19 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 1906. The population thus dealt with comprised 21,256
persons, and the death-rate at "all ages" after correction for age and sex distribution was 137 per 1,000
living compared with 15.1 for London.
* Summonses were taken out in respect to these premises, but were subsequently withdrawn, the owner
paying £5 5s. costs.
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