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London County Council 1907

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

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Common Lodging Houses.
The administration of the Common Lodging Houses Acts devolved upon the Council in 1894.
By the passing of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, the Council obtained powers
to license common lodging houses annually. New by-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, the authorised number of lodgers, and the number of convictions, with the penalties inflicted, and other particulars during each year since1894 :—

In the following table will be seen the number of houses, the authorised number of lodgers, and the number of convictions, with the penalties inflicted, and other particulars 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.
189562629,574161237605199
189659629,14028,331-31301121606571
189758128,71826,121-3130921105948
189856028,33227,658-2929167308744
189954428,44828,2291,1622522183909654
190052828,31128,42866816131021509140
190151428,037½*35,2252,13316159630102166
190249128,970½*40,5121,44922219840120684
190347028,89333,4024,79066261109853
190445128,89627,5012,970151462607466
190541327,571½*28.1581,565211677305314
190640228,063½*30,0282,3494411106522
190739528,651½*33,6302,3073312908127

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In the year 1907 proceedings before the Magistrates were instituted in 3 instances, resulting in
3 convictions, the penalties amounting to £11—with costs amounting to £1 9s.
The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease reported in common lodging houses were as
follows :—Erysipelas, 14 ; scarlet fever, 7 ; diphtheria, 5 ; enteric fever, 1—total, 27.

Table: The following table shows the total number of common lodging houses, and the authorised accommodation for the different classes of lodgers in the several sanitary areas of London, other thanthat of the City, on 31st December, 1907 :—

The following table shows the total number of common lodging houses, and the authorised accommodation for the different classes of lodgers in the several sanitary areas of London, other than

that of the City, on 31st December, 1907 :—

Sanitary district.No. of houses.Authorised accommodation.
Men.Women.Couples.Total.
Battersea81577823281
I Bermondsey51,078——1,078
Bethnal Green14709——709
Camberwell6536——536
Chelsea933752—389
Deptford81,15980—1,239
Finsbury8543——543
Fulham143——43
Greenwich4157——157
Hackney6401——401
Hammersmith9466—4474
Hampstead—————
Holborn301,797162—1,959
Islington431,229215181,480
Kensington24427272—699
Lambeth7702——702
Lewisham130——30
Paddington719540—235
Poplar91,142——1,142
St. Marylebone171,32184-1,405
St. Pancras10727111-833
Shoreditch127741-774
South wark443,195492-3,687
Stepney615,4557521806,567
Stoke Newington137-- 1-37
Wandsworth91765½20221½
Westminster, City of182,35975—2,434
Woolwich2454744—591
London—excluding the City of | London39525,6992,462 ½24528,651½

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*½ One child.
† The number of deaths stated in the above table includes all the deaths actually occurring in common
lodging houses and a few deaths occurring in public institutions among persons of the common lodging house class,
which are brought to the knowledge of the inspectors in certain cases in which death is followed by an inquest.