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London County Council 1906

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

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Table V. shows the accommodation available for women only in shelters, homes, and institutions
which cannot be classed as common lodging houses, and the extent to which this accommodation was
_ma.de use of on the night of 8th .February. In some fe.w cases where the precise figures were not
available the average number of residents has been inserted.
8, St. Martin s-place, W.C.
21st' February, 1907.
(Signed) Shirley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE I.Homeless Poor Census.Classification of homeless poor according to districts.

TABLE I.

Homeless Poor Census.

Classification of homeless poor according to districts.

DistrictMen.Women.Children.
1. Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, Kensington, Hammersmith, Edgware-road, Harrow-road, Paddington and Kilburn15460
2. Grosvenor-road, Chelsea-embankment, Sloane-street, Brompton-road. Lillie-rood to River *3. City West, Embankment, Westminster, Soho, St. James's Park, Marble Arch113I
1,25659—
4. Islington, Clerkenwell. Hoxton, Holloway, King's Cross, Gray's Inn-road, Camden Town...5889—
5. Bethnal-green-road, Kingsland-road, Hackney-road35—
t6. Spitalfields, Whitechapel-road, Bethrial-green-road, Cambridge-road, Bishopsgate24696—
7. City East, Shadwell, Poplar, Limehouse148283
8. Borough, Southwark, Lambeth, Kennington, Clapham11861—
9. Beimondsey, Elephant, Old Kent-road, Camberwell, Peckham, Albert-embankment, Westminster-bridge-road, Vauxhall41—
Totals1,9984024

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*Including 862 men and 36 wom»n on Embankment for free food and 156 men at the Church Army tents.
†Including 25 men and 2 women buying cheap food at Salvation Army shelter in Whitechapel-road.

Table: TABLE IT.Common Lodging Houses.

TABLE IT.

Common Lodging Houses.

Sanitary district.No. of HousesAccommodation.Census on 8th—9th Feb., 1907.Number of vacant beds on 8th—9th Feb., 1907.Number of persons turned away unable to pay, etc.
Males.Females.Couples.Males.Females.Couples.Males.Females.Couples.Males.Females.Couples.
Battersea81577823122166356217_––
Bermondsey5885——651——234——37——
Bethnal-green15717——544——173——8——
Camberwell6537——432–—105——8——
Chelsea933752—24741—9011—14—_
City of London1452——452—————33——
Deptford81,19449—82633—36810—17——
Finsbury8543——452——91——92——
Fulham260——46——14—————
Greenwich4157——102——55——8——
Hackney6401——291——110——3——
Hammersmith9466—4333—3133—1———
Hampstead—————————————
Holbom301,807162—1,518137—28925—8–—
Islington421,17821718932140122467763031
Kensington24439272—315160—124112————
Lambeth7702——488——214——34——
Lewisham130_—17——13—————
Paddington719540—13722—5818————
Poplar101,198——879——319——30——
St. Marylebone171,32184—1,18443—13741—23—
St. Pancras10767112—60755—16057—1——
Shoreditch11731_—621——110——5——
Southwark433,171492—2,592290—579202—7010—
Stepney675,6347541804,4965631721,138191820248
Stoke Newington137_—35——2——1——
Wandsworth91762015951417462——
Westminster191,75975—1,49060—26915—43——
Woolwich2454844—47033—7811—101—
Totals40325,5992,436J24520,4381,5982075,161838138658219

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½ = 1 child.
Note.—In addition to the figures given above there were in Rowton Houses on the same night, 4,263 men, and
in iiruce House, Kemble-street, Westminster, 642 men.