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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following table shows the number of sanitary officers in the several sanitary districts in the years 1908 and 1910:—
| District. | No. of Sanitary Officers. | District. | No. of Sanitary Officers. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspectors. | Whole-time Health Visitors. | Inspectors. | Whole-time Health Visitors. | ||||||||
| 1908. | 1910. | 1910. | 1908. | 1910. | 1910. | ||||||
| M. | W. | M. | W. | W. | M. | w. | M. | W. | W. | ||
| Battersea | 11 | 2 | 11 | *2 | 1 | Paddington | 10 | 2 | 9 | 2 | _ |
| Bermondsey | 8 | — | 11 | — | 1 | Poplar | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Bethnal Green | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | St. Marylebone | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | — |
| Camberwell | 12 | 1 | 12 | 1 | — | St. Pancras | 14 | 2 | 15 | 2 | — |
| Chelsea | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | Shoreditch | 6 | — | 6 | — | 1 |
| Deptford | 6 | — | 7 | — | 1 | South wark | 13 | 3 | 12 | 3 | — |
| Finsbury | 9 | 2 | 8 | *1 | 2 | Stepney | 18 | — | 18 | — | 1 |
| Fulham | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | — | Stoke Newington | 3 | — | 2 | *1 | — |
| Greenwich | — | 5 | — | — | Wandsworth | 10 | 2 | 11 | 2 | — | |
| Hackney | 15 | 2 | 15 | 2 | — | Westminster | 10 | 2 | 10 | 2 | — |
| Hammersmith | 9 | — | 9 | — | 1 | Woolwich | 8 | 2 | 8 | — | |
| Hampstead | 6 | 1 | 6 | †2 | — | City of London | 17 | 3 | 18 | 3 | _ |
| Holborn | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | London | 279 | 40 | 286 | 41 | 12 |
| Islington | 20 | 2 | 20 | 2 | — | ||||||
| Kensington | 11 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Lambeth | 13 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 1 | M = Men. | 319 | 327 | |||
| Lewisham | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | — | W = Women. | |||||
*One inspector appointed also as health visitor under the L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1908, section 6.
†Both inspectors appointed also as health visitors.
The return differs somewhat from the returns published since 1902, inasmuch as the salaries
of the various officers are given in place of the gross figures relating to number of houses, population,
etc., taken from the 1901 census. The average for each sanitary inspector, however, based on these
figures has been retained, and it will be seen that there is in London as a whole, one sanitary inspector
to every 1,748 inhabited houses, and to every 13,873 persons. Of this average population more than
half, or 7,491 persons, at the date of the census occupied tenements of less than five rooms, and of
these persons 2,220 were living more than two in a room.
Public Health Department,
8, St. Martm's-place, W.C.
July, 1910.
Shikley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.